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" 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 - Page 120
edited by - 1876 - 352 pages
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Pearls from the poets: specimens selected, with biogr. notes, by H.W. Dulcken

Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine \vould be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there...
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The Ladies' Reader: Designed for the Use of Ladies' Schools and Family ...

John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 pages
...much sweet these heavy winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakeu'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear and fresh,...What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Chorus Hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Match'd with thiue would be all But an empty Taunt — A thing...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pages
..." Death, the immortalizing writer," is actually corrected into " Death, the immortalizing winter I" Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music...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...
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A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not : Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing...thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That pauted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or trinmphal chant, Match'd with thine...
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The Poetry of Nature

1861 - 182 pages
...much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Bain-awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A tiling wherein we feel there...
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The poetical reader, with notes and questions by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 pages
...Kain-awaken'd 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, Matcheil with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...heavy-winged thieves. Till the scent it gives Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and...What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Chorus hymeneal Or trimnpBal r Match'd -with tVimf, wooH be all But an empty vaunt— A riling wherein...
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A manual of English literature and of the history of the English language ...

George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 pages
...Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not : Like a highborn maiden In a palace tower, Soothing...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...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1862 - 592 pages
...which overflows her bower: Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aSrial hue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from...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...
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Favourite English Poems: Thomson to Tennyson, 1700-1860

1863 - 392 pages
...thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing...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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