| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pągines
...flowers and grass, which screen it from the view. 11. Like a rose embowered in its own green leaves, By warm winds deflowered, till the scent it gives...faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. 12. Souiul of vernal showers on the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, all that ever was Joyous,... | |
| Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pągines
...the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view : Like a rose embowered In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-wingSd thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 pągines
...the fresh strains of " our Father Chaucer:"— '•' Sound; of vernal showers On the twinkling.grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass!" We have mentioned the anachronism of plan in this poem; it abounds in others no less extraordinary.... | |
| William Davis (B.A.) - 1867 - 80 pągines
...fault Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration.—Milton. 33. Sound of vernal flowers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All...Joyous and clear and fresh thy music doth surpass. Shelley 19 34. Far down the beautiful river, Past the Obi's shore, and past the mouth of the Wabash,... | |
| Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pągines
...with hopes and fears it heeded not. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Kain-a waken' d flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or waves, or mountains ? What shapes... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 pągines
...a larger degree, for the words Shelley addresses to the sky-lark may be fitly applied to him : — Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...Joyous and clear and fresh thy music doth surpass. It seems natural to turn from Shelley to the young poet whose death he has so exquisitely mourned in... | |
| Oscar George Sonneck - 1923 - 648 pągines
...rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes... | |
| Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 pągines
...leaves, By warm winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives 55 Makes faint with too much sweet those heavy-winged thieves: Sound of vernal showers On the...twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was 60 Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass: Teach us, Sprite or Bird, What sweet thoughts... | |
| Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pągines
...the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view! Like a rose embowered In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet those heavy-winged thieves: Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakening flowers,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pągines
...the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view: Like a rose embowered In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives...Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. 60 Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: 1 have never heard Praise of love or wine... | |
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