 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
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 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...But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there ia some hidden want. What objects arc the fountains Of thy happy strain 1 What fields, or waves, or... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 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...would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we fool there is some hidden want. What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1860 - 522 pages
...us, sprite or bird, What sweet thought* are thine ; I have never heard, Praise of love or wine \in That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.' Chorus hymeneal, '• Or triumphal chnunt, Matched with thine would he all •' ' But «n empty vaunt,— A thing wherein we feel there... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. Teach us, 'sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. 5. Chorus hymene'al, Or triumphal chant, Hatched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, A thing wherein we feel there is some bidden want. 6. With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be ; Shadow of annoyance Never came near... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : • »ave never heard Praise of love or wine Fhat panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Match'd with thine would be all But ar °r™.pty vaunt — A thin '[ wherein we feel there is some... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 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...hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine \vould be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want. .56 THE SKYLARK.... | |
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