 Teach us, Sprite or Bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or 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 wherein...  Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature - Page 11edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphant chant, Matched with thine, would be all But an empty vaunt, — . A thing wherein we feel... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...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...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphant chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - 1854 - 120 pages
...her sleeping baby." WORDSWORTH. 3. Two feet and a half: " Teach me, | sprite or I bird, What sweet | thoughts are | thine : I have | never | heard Praise...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine." SHELLEY. 4. Three feet : " Foes may | h6wl a]round me, Fears may | hunt and | hound me, — Shall their... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love...of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there is some... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...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...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or trinmphant chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpassTeach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal. Or triumphant chant. Matched with thine, would be all But an empty vaunt, — A thing wherein we feel... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphant chant, Matched with thine, would be all But an empty vaunt, — A thing wherein we feel... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. XIII. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. XIV. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 770 pages
...was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. XIII. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a Hood of rapture so divine. XIV. Chorus hymeneal, But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 474 pages
...heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. XIV. Chorus hymeneal, But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want. XV. What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or waves, or mountains ? What... | |
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