 | Charles Smith (rector of Newton, Suffolk.) - 1844 - 212 pagine
...and poets charm, while they instruct, with increasing power, successive generations of the Church : " The wise, who soar, but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home." WORDSWORTH. Over these gracious intimations, however, of things not seen as yet, Popery throws the chains of her... | |
 | 1895 - 862 pagine
...until then undiscovered, trait in the bird in whose honor he wrote ; to Wordsworth the skylark was Type of the wise who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of heaven and home, while in the same bird Shelley recognizes a spirit akin to his own : — A poet hidden In... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pagine
...Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain ; Yet might'st thon seem, proud privilege ! to sing, AH ` , LITTLE STREAMS. Lrm.E streams, in light and shadow Flowing through the pasture meadow; Flowing by the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pagine
...canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still! Leave to the nightingale her shady wood; A privacy of glorious light is thine;...dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinet more divine ; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagine
...seem,1 proud privilege ! to sing All independent of the leafy spring. Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whence thou dost pour upon the world'a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine ; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam ; True... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pagine
...into at ™« Those quivering wings compwed, thai still! Leaye to the nightingale her shady wo«l; A privacy of glorious light is thine: Whence thou dost pour upon the worlJ s " Of harmony, with instinct more di\ir< : Type of the wise who soar, but never m^' True to... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pagine
...and beyond, [strain Mount, daring warbler! That love-prompted ('Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond) Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain...the kindred points of heaven and home. WORDSWORTH. THE SWALLOW. THE swallow is a bonnie bird, comes twittering o'er the sea, And gladly is her carol heard... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pagine
...thou seem, proud privilege ! to sing All independent of the leafy spring. Leave to the nightingale her shady wood, — A privacy of glorious light is thine...dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine ; Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of heaven... | |
 | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin - 1846 - 954 pagine
...parish are such difficult subjects to please. There is the lark's lesson ever ready to be learnt — ' Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam, True to the kindred points — heaven and their home.' And yet you congratulate me in escaping this land of Egypt, and immediately... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 350 pagine
...strain (Twist thee and thine a never-failing bond) Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain ; Tet mightst thou seem, proud privilege ! to sing, All...the kindred points of heaven and home. WORDSWORTH. No one can walk into the fields on a morning in spring without noticing the general air of cheerfulness... | |
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Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home... 
