Teach us, sprite or bird, what sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Songs of Three Centuries - Stran 120uredili: - 1876 - 352 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Half hours - 1856 - 650 strani
...much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Bain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 strani
...Eain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 374 strani
...unbidden Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not : Like a high-bom maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 strani
...As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. Teach us, 'sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 strani
...when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. 4. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. 5. Chorus hymene'al, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, A thing... | |
| 1858 - 460 strani
...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...thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of I9ve or wine , Tliat panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphant chant,... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 strani
...Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 strani
...Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt— A thing wherein we feel there... | |
| Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 486 strani
...i:ivon loaves, By warm winds deflowered, Till lhe scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet, those heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the...a flood of rapture so divine, Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphant chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt— A thing wherein we feel there... | |
| England - 1860 - 532 strani
...warm winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy -winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
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