 | 1857 - 594 pagine
...never loses himself in the clouds, as several of them are wont to do. He is emphatically one of those " Who soar, but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and of home." Another trait observable in our author is the number of pithy sayings and sound maxims... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pagine
...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 mstinct more divine. Type of the wise who soar, but never roam, True to the kindred points of Heaven... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pagine
...seem, proud privilege ! to sing All independent of the leafy spring. Leave to the nightingale he_r 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 pagine
...Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain ! Yet might' st thou seem, proud privilege, to sing Ail independent of the leafy spring. " Leave to the nightingale...but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home." THE CRESTED LARK. The CRESTED LARK — Alouette Cochevis of the French — A. cristata,... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 pagine
...drop into at w.ll, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ... Leave to the nightingale her shady wood; A privacy of glorious light is thine, Whence thou dost pour upon the world a Hood x Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise, who soar but never roam — True to... | |
 | Laurence Goldstein - 1986 - 302 pagine
...the fever, and the fret" of earthbound existence. In "To the Skylark" Wordsworth will call the bird "Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam - / True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home." But Keats does not describe birdflight as a commutation from higher to lower worlds. The... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - 1982 - 244 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... | |
 | R. P. Hewett - 1985 - 322 pagine
...drop into at will, 5 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 instinct more divine; 10 Type of the wise who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of... | |
 | Dame Bird Scharlieb - 1925 - 434 pagine
...appealed to me was the fireplace — stainless white marble, and bearing on its lintel the words : " Type of the wise, who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home." I knew that Mrs. Acland had just passed beyond the veil and in some manner I thought that... | |
 | 1897 - 672 pagine
...alone indicates that they had not far to go in search of a farm. They were a home loving race, types of the " Wise who soar, but never roam, True to the kindred points of Heaven and home." They were trusted by their landlords, and highly respected in the parish and neighbourhood... | |
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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... 
