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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. "
The first (-sixth) 'Standard' reader - Page 96
by James Stuart Laurie - 1863
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The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...with too much sweet these пеатуwinged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all What objects are the fountains...
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The Genius of Scotland: Or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion

Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 pages
...Rain awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous and fresh and clear thy music doth surpass. Teach me, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal Or triumphant chaunt, Match'd with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: complete in one volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal snowero On the twinkling grass, Roin-awaken'd flowers. All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpaj*. 463 Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thin*: I have never heard Praise of...
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Exmoor: Or, The Footsteps of St. Hubert in the West

Herbert Byng Hall - 1849 - 492 pages
...vale, cheered by the skylark's revelry, which recalled again to memory the words of the poet — " Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are...wine, That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine." Forward we rode, enjoying all, admiring all, and glorying in the charms of merry England, when the...
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Outlines of English Literature

Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 pages
...Chaucer:" — CHAP. ii.J CHAUCER: HOUSE OF FAME. 41 " Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass!" We have mentioned the anachronism of plan in this poem ; it abounds in others no less extraordinary....
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Outlines of English literature

Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pages
...strains of " our Fath Chaucer :" — " Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Bain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass ! " We have mentioned the anachronism of plan in this poen it abounds in others no less extraordinary....
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The Metropolitan, Volume 55

1849 - 470 pages
...with other beautiful things, says, — " Sound of vernal flowers On the twinkling grass, Rain awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous and clear and fresh, thy music doth surpass." The lines themselves have the very melody of the showers they describe, and show how highly he appreciated...
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Spring flowers gathered for young florists, by S.P.

Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 pages
...much sweet these heavywinged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Shelley. THE LADY OF THE GARDEN. A ladv, the wonder of her kind, Whose form was upborne hy a lovelv...
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The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volumes 1-4

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...these heavvwinged thieves. XII. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened (lowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surjiass. Teach UK, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love...
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