| Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Bain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing... | |
| Johann Matthaeus Bechstein - 1856 - 272 pages
...us of the beautiful description of the poet: — ** Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling prass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy Music doth surpass." VIII.— THE SISKIN OR ABERDEVINE. THIS pretty and lively bird is less valued as a cage songster in... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 pages
...faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass." In most poets imearthly beings are introduced to express peculiar removed essences of lyrical rapture... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Eain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That... | |
| Country life - 1856 - 482 pages
...these heavy- wing'd thieve* Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, 6* All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass, Teach no sprite or bird What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted... | |
| 1856 - 754 pages
...faint with too much sweet these heavywinged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth snrpats Te«h mo half tho gladness That thy brain must know, S;ieh harmonious madness From my lips... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 pages
...scent it gives Makes faint with too uftch sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass." On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, In most poets unearthly beings are introduced to express... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. 4. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. 5. Chorus hymene'al, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, A thing... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. Teach us, 'sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing... | |
| 1858 - 460 pages
...faint with too much sweet those heavy- winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and...thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of I9ve or wine , Tliat panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphant chant,... | |
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