 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...whose command I beautify the land, Creeping, silently creeping everywhere. SARAH ROBERTS. 8% SRglsrL HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pages
...It is their work to bear." At p. 12, for " And her thoughts were each a minister," read, probably. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like...Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight, " And her own thoughts," &c. At p. 28, for " And lived thenceforth as if some control," read " And... | |
 | 1861 - 182 pages
...art. Higher still, and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire ; The deep blue thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring...the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple even Melts... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1862 - 592 pages
...soaring upward to Heaven, and pouring forth an unconscious hymn of praise and thanksgiving. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 pages
...Shelloy's shorter poems — his Ode, or Hymn, as it may be called, To a Skylark, written in 1820 : — Hail to thee, blithe spirit, Bird thou never wert,...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and rim ; Like an embodied Joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...and unbuild it again. I conclude my selections from Shelley with. "The Skylark." Hail to thee, blythe Spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 pages
...Hymn, as it may be called, To a Skylark, written in 1820 : — Hail to thee, blithe spirit, Bird them never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an embodied Joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | 1863 - 982 pages
...CCXLI TO A SKYLARK ' AIL to thee, blithe Spirit I Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it H Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest...lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple... | |
 | 1863 - 542 pages
...In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still, and higher, From the earth thou spriugest ; Like a cloud of fire The blue deep thou wingest ;...the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run. Like an unbodied joy, whose race is just begun." Yet even this symbol of a... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like...art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight. Keen are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we... | |
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HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest,... 
