 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering Voice ? While I am lying on the grass, 5 Thy twofold shout I hear ; From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once...babbling only to the vale Of sunshine and of flowers, 10 Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring ! Even yet... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...grass, Thy two-fold shout I hear, That seems to fill the air's whole space, As loud far off as near .... Thrice welcome, darling of the spring ! Even yet thou...bird : but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery. The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to ; that cry • Which made me look a thousand ways... | |
 | 1868 - 506 pages
...! shall I call the Bird, Or but a wandering voice ? " Thrice welcome, darling of the spring ! E'en yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery." The allusion to his apparent invisibility is not the least beautiful idea conveyed by these lines,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...I call thee Bird, Or bat a wandering Voice I 1799. While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear, From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once...only to the Vale, Of sunshine and of flowers, Thou bringcst unto me a tale Of visionary hours. Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art... | |
 | A. P. A. - Acrostics - 1869 - 226 pages
...other, Is swimming round and round." 5. " While I am lying on the grass Thy loud note smites my ear ! From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off and near!" 6. " Oh ! as I trace again thy winding hill, Mine eyes admire, my heart adores thee still." 79"She... | |
 | 1870 - 464 pages
...shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering Voice ? While I am lying on the grass, 5 Thy twofold shout I hear; From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once...babbling only to the vale Of sunshine and of flowers, . 10 Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring ! Even... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1870 - 834 pages
...from the copse or the wood, while the bird itself is concealed, is referred to by Wordsworth : — "Thrice welcome, darling of the spring ! Even yet...bird, but an invisible thing — A voice, a mystery." And who can listen to its simple song of two notes (which, by the way, a musical critic describes as... | |
 | Gaile McGregor - Social Science - 1988 - 372 pages
...nature are really half-disguised visionary apostrophes," says James Mclntosh, citing "To the Cuckoo" ("Even yet thou art to me/ No bird, but an invisible thing,/ A voice, a mystery") as an illustration of his point. "[H]e will begin by observing a natural object, but this becomes an... | |
 | Gaile McGregor - Social Science - 1988 - 372 pages
...nature are really half-disguised visionary apostrophes," says James McIntosh, citing "To the Cuckoo" ("Even yet thou art to me/ No bird, but an invisible thing,/ A voice, a mystery") as an illustration of his point. "[H]e will begin by observing a natural object, but this becomes an... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear; From hill to hill it seems to pass At once...bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. Thrice welcomej darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a... | |
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Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery... 
