 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground * Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. PRINCE ATHANASE A FRAGMENT. THERE was a youth, who, as with toil and travel, Had grown quite weak and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books arc Ibund, Thy skill to poet were, thou scomer of the ground .' J WQ }d c0f6I J O #=B C ' 0 d[x Y e2 1[ / @> n0 $ IJ y I3wa o S 0C d p i 8 AN EXHORTATION. CHAMELEONS feed on light and air; Poets' food is love and fame : If in this wide world... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...Hotter than all treasures, That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE was born on the 20th of October, 1772, at Ottcry St. Mary, in Devonshire. His... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thv skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! e flower, which she had nursed in dew, Anemonies [From ' The Scnsitire Plant.'] A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Keats, born in 1796, died the year before Shelley, and, of course, at a still earlier age. But his... | |
 | Literature - 1895 - 862 pages
...more keenly, that he is not the man to set it right. EDITH SELLERS. From The Argosy. A BIRD LYRIC. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...world should listen, then, as I am listening now. So sang Shelley in his great birdsong, and such in substance has been the homage which the race of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. XIX. Yet if we could scorn...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. "In the spring of 1820," says Mrs. Shelley, "we spent a week or two near Leghorn, borrowing the house... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! 3 Teach me half the gladness, That thy brain must know;...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. " In the spring of 1820," says Mrs. Shelley, " we spent a week or two near Leghorn, borrowing the house... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...Setter than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scornerofthe ground ! 3 Teach me half the gladness, That thy brain must know;...The world should listen then, as I am listening now: " In the spring of 1820," says Mrs. Shelley, " we spent a week or two near Leghorn, borrowing the house... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thouscornerof the ground! 3 Teach me half the gladness, That thy brain must know;...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. • " In the spring of 1820," says Mrs. Shelley, " we spent a week or two near Leghorn, borrowing the... | |
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Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to... 
