 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 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,...lips would flow, The world should listen then, as 1 am listening now. THE SENSITIVE PLANT* A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds ted... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou seorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That the brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. 199. RETURNINO SPRING. Ah, woe is me ! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 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 facts as they are on record. Pronounce the g in AKOYLE hard (as in go), LAMOST, la-mont'. CHARACTERS. MACGBEGOR, LAMOXT, ARGYLE, Ross, LIXZIK. SCEXE.... | |
 | William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 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. TO A BEE.— (Robert Soutliey.) Thou wert out betimes, thou busy, busy bee ! As abroad I took my early... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 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 FUGITIVES. HPHE waters are flashing, •*- The white hail is dashing, The lightnings are glancing,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pages
...than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! loo Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now! 105 Perey Bysshe Shtlley. CCXXVIII 'ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR: Tis time this heart... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 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 EXERCISE.— OS. COMPOSITION. 1. What is meant by trochaic measure J What la the length of each of... | |
 | Mark Bailey - 1880 - 80 pages
...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." ' Noble ' example for ' pure tone,' to be given also with full ' median stress.' pendence and gratitude.... | |
 | Liz Greene - 1984 - 384 pages
...in which the drama of the struggle for evolution and its inevitable repercussions are imaged. PISCES Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...world should listen then - as I am listening now. Shelley, To a Skylark The sign of the Fishes is steeped in myth, for unlike many of the other zodiacal... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 pages
...the skylark, so the reader is to identify with the speaker's struggle to identify with the skylark: Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...world should listen then - as I am listening now. It is the reader who is 'listening now' and has been throughout the poem and whose brain is expected... | |
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