 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 than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to...  Standard Fifth Reader - Page 445by Epes Sargent - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. PIRCT BTMBI SHU.LIT. A LARK SINGING IN A RAINBOW. Fraught with a transient, frozen shower If a cloud... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That my brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. COWPEB. THIS distinguished poet was born in Hertfordshire, 1731, of a good family ; and, after a melancholy... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground XXI. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...the world should listen then, as I am listening now. TO I FEAB thy kisses, gentle maiden, Thou needest not fear mine ; My spirit is too deeply laden Ever... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...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... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A LARK SINGING IN A RAINBOW. Fraught with a transient, frozen shower If a cloud... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now THE PRISONER OF CH1LLON. — Byron. A FABLE. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETEKNAL spirit of the chainless mind... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 770 pages
...than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground XXI. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listeninp now. TO I FEAR thy kisses, gentle maiden, Thou needest not fear mine ; I fear thy mien, thy... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know...world should listen then, as I am listening now." We can hear that the poetry of Keats is a rich, composite, voluptuous harmony; that of Shelley a clear... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...better than all treasures that in books are found, thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness that thy brain must know;...the world should listen then, as I am listening now. XXXIX.— HYMN OF THE MORAVIAN NUNS, ON CONSECRATING PULASKI'S BANNER.— LmgJeOaus. WHEN the dying... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 368 pages
...alone are like a song at heaven's gates, might not alone the poet, but the wisest of mortals, say, " Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know...world should listen then, as I am listening now." But this common thought of lovers and of our poor human ity, that prompts to tolerance, is not only... | |
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