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" 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. "
The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and reader), ed ... - Page 229
edited by - 1863
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes

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...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...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...
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Bechstein's Handbook of chamber and cage birds [tr. by W.E. Shuckard] ed. by ...

Johann Matthaeus Bechstein - 1856 - 272 pages
...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...
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The National Review, Volume 3

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...
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Principles of Elocution

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...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...
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The Standard Fifth Reader: (first-class Standard Reader) : for Public and ...

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...
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Gleanings from the Poets for Home and School

1858 - 460 pages
...those 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...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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The poetical reader, with notes and questions by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...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. Teach me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That...
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Works ...

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...
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The advanced prose and poetical reader, by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...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. Teach me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That...
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