 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,...  The Educator-journal - Seite 4511902Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 Seiten
...heaven, when thou afforded bad men such music on earth ?" IZAAE WALTON, 1593-16S3. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wer't,...the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning... | |
 | 1855 - 458 Seiten
...serve thee; And both thy servants be. TO A SKYLARK — Shelley. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thcm never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest...the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 Seiten
...example, generate a sense of stretch or expansiveness, usually (though not always) a slowing down: Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert....the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. This complex and unusual... | |
 | Yopie Prins, Maeera Shreiber - 1997 - 396 Seiten
...Shelley's "To a Sky-Lark," the object of poetic address is actually the literary dissolution of the body: Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. "Like an unbodied joy," Shelley's lark bleeds only music. Dickinson's lark, however, produces a bizarrely... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...1 , The Raven and Other Poems (1 845). First published in New York Evening Mirror Han. 29, 1845). 5 Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, (1792-1822) British poet. "To a Skylark," st. 1 (written 1 820). Opening lines.... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 Seiten
...And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,...the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning... | |
 | David Herbert Lawrence - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...resistant. It is most wonderful in poetry, this sense of conflict contained within a reconciliation: Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,...full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.* Shelley wishes to say, the skylark is a pure, untrammelled spirit, a pure motion. But the very 'Bird... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. 10707 To a Skylark' 10706 'To a Skylark' And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. 10709 To a Skylark' Like... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 Seiten
...in humility, and we are no different. FORM : Irregular sonnet, rhyming ababacdcefegeg. To a Skylark Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy füll heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou... | |
 | Roy Woodcock - 1998 - 166 Seiten
...understood the popularity of the skylark with poets, notably Shelley who was inspired to write To a Skylark. 'Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, ornear it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.' Bird life will show the... | |
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