 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...labor, and though much admired By curious eyes and judgments ill-informed, CXCIV. — TO THE SKYLARK. 1. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! — Bird thou never wert, — That from heaven, or near it, Poorest thy full heart, In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. 2. Higher still and higher From the... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...That, as the world serves us, we may serve thee ; And both thy servants be. TO A SKYLARK — Shelley. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er... | |
 | 1858 - 866 pages
...different, yet all breathing the purest melody. His heart overflows : Higher still and higher, From tho earth thou springest; Like a cloud of fire, The blue...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring crer singest l Now he has entered yon brilliant cloud ; and he seems nearing the sacred precincts,... | |
 | Denis Florence MacCarthy - English poetry - 1858 - 482 pages
...authority of Shelley, who gives a dissyllabic sound to the word fire in his " Ode to the Skylark"— " Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire," &c. • It is a license, however, only excusable in poems like this one of the author's, where, from... | |
 | John William Carleton - Firearms - 1859 - 408 pages
...fat. The Lark (Alanda arvensis, Linn.). — One of our poets thus addresses this sweet warbler : — " Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated an. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest ; Like a cloud of fire, The blue deep thou... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...it, and serving the purposes of Beneficence with a ca-lmness befitting his knowledge and his love. t> TO A SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou...from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart, In [ rufiwi: strains of unpremeditated art.' Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...of the Alexandrine, expresses the eagerness and continuity of the song of the lark — Leigh Hunt. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire ! The blue deep thou wingest,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 pages
...with me into the clouds ' — is by no means equal to Shelley's fierce lyric to the same bird — ' Like a cloud of fire The blue deep thou wingest — And singing ever soarest, And soaring ever singest.' Nor can it stand comparison with Keats's wild verses to the... | |
 | Peter Bullions - English language - 1859 - 264 pages
...chair, Sat a | farmer, | ruddy, | fat, and | fair. 5. Hail to | thee, hlithe | spirit! | hird thnu | never | wert, That from | heaven, or | near it, | pourest | thy full | heart. 6. Night and | morning | were at | meeting, | over | Water | 15o ; Cocks had | sung their | earliest... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1860 - 486 pages
...mountain river, Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver, Joy and jollity be with us both." Hear Shelley. Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert,...springest. Like a cloud of fire The blue deep thou wingcst, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. O'er which clouds arc bright'ning,... | |
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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... 
