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" What thou art we know not; What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought... "
Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ... - Page 165
edited by - 1867 - 295 pages
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 456 pages
...rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art, we know not ; What is most like theo 1 From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet...
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Lives of the Illustrious, Volumes 1-2

1856 - 754 pages
...rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not ; What is most like thoo ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright...Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To svmpathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. Like a high-born maiden In a palace-tower, Soothing her...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainhow clouds there flow not Drops so hright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody....poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unhidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. Like a high-born...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1860 - 522 pages
...ruins out her beams, and heaven if overflowed. What thou art we know not ; What in most like thee t ( From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. , . , f JUk«« poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought...
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The National Review, Volume 3

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 pages
...and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow-clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. ****** Like a high-born maiden In a palace-tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as...
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 2

Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 374 pages
...night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What them art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not : Like a high-bom maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music...
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The College Magazine:, Volume 1

English literature - 1858 - 398 pages
...when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. " What thou art we know not. What is most like thee?...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody." Then follows that exquisite simile, where he compares the invisible singer to — " A poet hidden In...
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The advanced prose and poetical reader, by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...As, when night is bare From one lonely cloud, The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour Writh music...
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Works ...

Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...know not. What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow :i'./. Drops so bright to see, 1.t from thy presence showers a rain of melody Like a...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not Like a high-born maiden* In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music...
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The poetical reader, with notes and questions by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...As, when night is bare From one lonely cloud, The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee...thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet bidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with...
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