 | William Osborn (schoolmaster) - 1871 - 114 pages
...Better than all treasures, That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness, That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! " Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...world should listen then, as I am listening now." 'Noble' example for 'pure tone,' to be given also with full ' median stress.' " We wish that this column,... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. To the Cuckoo. HAIL, beauteous stranger of the grove ! Thou messenger of Spring... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 pages
...than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! XXL Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. TO . I FEAR thy kisses, gentle maiden, Thou needest not fear mine ; My spirit ia too deeply laden Ever... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. If there be anywhere a companion poem to this, it is John Keats's "Ode to the Nightingale." Poor John... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found,! Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. THOMAS HOOD. 1798—1845. Past and Present. I BEMEMBEB, I remember, The house where I was born, The... | |
 | Literary bouquet - 1872 - 180 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Shellev. W VIRTUE'S PRIZE. i J HAT nothing earthly gives, or can destroy The soul's calm sunshine,... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. FLOWERS OF THE GARDEN. A SENSITIVE PLANT in a garden grew, And the young Winds fed it with silver dew,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...than all treasures that in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! 21. Teach me half the gladness that thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHKLLET. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, a poet of admirable genius, the son and heir of a •wealthy baronet... | |
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Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to... 
