 | English poetry - 1863 - 392 pages
...winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 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... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1863 - 298 pages
...cloud of fire, The blue deep thou wingest, And singing gtill dost soar, and soaring ever singest. " Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. " Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips must flow, The... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and...us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : 1 I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, sprite or bird, I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted...forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal Or triumphal chaunt Match'd with thine, would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...winds deflower'd, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much scent these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened...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... | |
 | 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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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. 
