 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...screen it from the view : Like a rose embowered In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflowered, Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakon'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Match'd with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...correct form of thls word sent at once suggests its derivation, Lat. sentire, Fr. sentir (Trench). Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are...panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymenseal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matehed with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, — A thing wherein... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...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... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 pages
...Bain-awakened 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. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine, would be all But an empty vaunt — A... | |
 | William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 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 chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1870 - 236 pages
...unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view. 62 T//£ SKYLARK: Like a rose embowered In its own green leaves, By...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... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 pages
...thieves: Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was 60 Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass:...are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine 65 That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus Hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet those heavy-winged thieves. All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy...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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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. 
