 Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And...  Songs of Three Centuries - Seite 100herausgegeben von - 1875 - 352 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Caroline Bray - 1871 - 190 Seiten
...song it is, as it darts straight up into the sky, or rises in spiral circles until quite out of sight! "Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. " — Shelley. One can hardly believe that what seems a spirit of the air is only the little brown... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 Seiten
...wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. n. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. IIL In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and... | |
 | Literary bouquet - 1872 - 180 Seiten
...— My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go. Hums. H TO A SKYLARK. AIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it,...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun The pale purple... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 Seiten
...forth an unconscious hymn of praise and thanksgiving. TO THE SKYLARK. Hail to thce, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it,...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. u O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1872 - 438 Seiten
...the Divine Forgiver of injuries. TO A SKYLARK.— PEECT BYBSHE SHELLET. Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it,...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singeat In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 Seiten
...His visions were not of earth ; to his spirit one may speak as he to the lark in his famous ode : " Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest...singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest." All the fairnesses of the earth were dearest to him as imaging yet more exquisite ar.d diviner beauty.... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 Seiten
...voice itself is soft like Solitude's, or Shelley's Skylark (ababsb6): Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it,...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. For further variations of the Spenserian stanza see Schipper, EM II, 2, 768 — 791, from whom some... | |
 | Eli Maor - 1991 - 306 Seiten
...>ronautcs and SDK* Adrnmsirat>on Figure 29. 1 . The plaque on board Pioneer 10. Photo courtesy NASA. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. a Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), To a Skylark 2.8 billion miles, taking them (at the speed of light)... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 Seiten
...Leigh Hunt in his periodical The Examiner (January 1818). To a Skylark Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it,...singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er where clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.... | |
 | 1875 - 398 Seiten
...lyric, confessedly the finer piece of the two., is well known : — " Hail to thee, blithe spirit, — Bird thou never wert ! That from heaven, or near it,...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." Just as this passionately- throbbing verse expressed the wildly beating heart of its author, so Wordsworth's... | |
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