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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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A Manual of English Literature, and of the History of the English Language ...

George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 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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The poetical reader for school and home use, ed. by J.C. Curtis

John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...By 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 chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 pages
...rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. "Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. " Better than all measures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground...
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The first (-sixth) 'Standard' reader, Volume 5

James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pages
...faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal sheers On the twinkling gu.ss, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow,...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 7-9

Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...these heavy -winged thieves : Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, AH that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music...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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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Treatise on Elocution, Exercises in ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...Rain-awaken'd flowers, all that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. 13. Teach us, sprite or bird, what sweet thoughts are...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. 14. Chorns hymens 'al, or triumphal chant, Match'd wife thine would be all but an empty vaunt — A...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...own green leaves, By warm winds deflower'd, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much scent these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers...panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymenoeal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, — A thing wherein...
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Pitman's Popular Lecturer and Reader, Volume 9

1864 - 402 pages
...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...
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Repetition and reading book, selections by C. Bilton

Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a glowworm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. TO A SKYLARK. 63 Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty...
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Spring-time with the poets, poetry selected and arranged by F. Martin

Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...By warm winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-wingSd thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling...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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