Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound — Better... Songs of Three Centuries - Seite 100herausgegeben von - 1875 - 352 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 Seiten
...sincerest laughter, With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Inferior to this, but still very beautiful, more natural, and more especially Scottish, are the following... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 Seiten
...delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scomer of the ground Teach me half the gladness That thy...The world should listen then, as I am listening now PoeB are on this cold earth. As chameleons might be, Hidden from their early birth In a cave beneath... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 Seiten
...Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, tlmu scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness...flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening ODE TO LIBEETY. Yet freedom, yet, thy banner torn but flying, Stream» like a thunder-storm against... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 Seiten
...and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all treasures • That in books are found,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. If there be anywhere a companion poem to this, it is John Keats's "Ode to the Nightingale." Poor John... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 Seiten
...come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books arc , a * u I am listening DOW. [From ' The Sauitite Pioirf.'] A Sensitire Plant in a garden grew. And the young... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 Seiten
...than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! 8 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. 1. " Shellev chose the measure of this poem with great felicity. The earnest flurry of the... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 Seiten
...thought. " Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. " Better...The world should listen then as I am listening now. The " Adonais," written in memory of Keats, one year before Shelley's own death, is not only remarkable... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 Seiten
...thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate , and pride , and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better...world should listen then , as I am listening now. Coleridge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ward am 20. October 1772 zu Ottery St. Mary in Devonshire geboren,... | |
| 1852 - 318 Seiten
...Rain-awakened flowers. All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass ^ ***** Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. It is not within our province to dwell critically upon Shelley s writings. They have now been nearly... | |
| Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 364 Seiten
...exuberance cf fancy, was incalculably superior to Wordsworth 1 But mark their inferences. Shelley. " Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...world should listen, then, as I am listening now." Wordsworth. "What though my course be rugged and uneven, To prickly moors and dusty ways confined,... | |
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