 What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody : — Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought...  Golden Number: A Book of Verse for Youth - Page 95edited by - 1916 - 686 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art, wo know not; What is most like thee ; From rainbow clouds...showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the li;;ht oi thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee...maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower. Like a glow-worm golden In... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven ia overflowed. What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee...maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower j Like a glowworm golden In... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow-clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy...maiden, In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower : Like a glow-worm golden,... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pages
...and heaven is overflowed. SONGS OF SKYLABKS. 209 What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee 1 From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright...world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it needed not Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 322 pages
...we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds they flow not Drops so bright to see, AB from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a...world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heedethnot. Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, S»othing her love-laden Soul, in secret hour,... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflow^ What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee...maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower ; Like a glowworm golden In... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not 5 Like a highborn maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour Y/ith music... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not; What is most like thee 7 From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright...maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower: Like a glow-worm golden In... | |
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