 What thou art we know not: What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought...  Rhetoric and the Study of Literature - Page 201by Alfred Marshall Hitchcock - 1913 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...bare, from one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflow'd. 7. What thon art we know not: what is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright tc see, As rrom thy presence showers a rain of melody. 8. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought,... | |
 | 1863 - 982 pages
...is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflow'd. What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy... | |
 | Elihu Burritt - 1864 - 386 pages
...and American farmer might study with profit. CHAPTER III. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BIRDS. " What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody." SHELLEY'S "SKYLARK." " Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these ? Do you ne'er think who made... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...is bare, from one lonely cloud the moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not ; what is most like thee? from rainbow...see as from thy presence showers a rain of melody. With thy clear keen joyance languor cannot be: shadow of annoyance never came near thee: thou lovest;... | |
 | 1864 - 536 pages
...intense nationality which characterizes Polish poetry. That stanza in Shelley's " Ode to a Skylark "— " Like a poet hidden, In the light of thought, Singing...To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not"— is peculiarly applicable to the Polish poet, " pouring his full heart," full of anything but the skylark's... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1864 - 324 pages
...curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." d. " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting." e. " Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not." 5. a. Mr. Collier speaks of the following lines of Marlow as Alexandrines. Is he right in doing so... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - 1923 - 648 pages
...which the poet seeks to grasp. He listens to the skylark: All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright...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... | |
 | Jerrold E. Hogle - 1989 - 433 pages
...literary sources. Instead he has approached motions he has beheld or heard, as "To a Sky-Lark" puts it, "Like a Poet hidden / In the light of thought, / Singing hymns unbidden" (ll. 36-38). Much as he has tried to be accurate about what he describes, even to the point of adhering... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 pages
...bare, From one lonely cloud 30 The moon rains out her beams, and Heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not; What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see 35 As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and Heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not; What is most like thee? From rainbow...fears it heeded not: Like a high-born maiden In a palace-tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows... | |
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