...intense with yon first trembling star We seem to pant and reach." or "That's tlic wise thrush. He sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first, free, careless rapture." crowd into our minds and seem to disprove the charge. If we apply Milton's...

...the clover Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge— \ That's the wise thrush : he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never...could recapture The first fine careless rapture.' Birds and poets are ancient allies, and birds have probably ' had gone at least fifty paces that the...

...in his observation of birds. Cf. Home Thoughts from Abroad: “That ‘s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never...could recapture The first, fine, careless rapture.” Stedman says of that passage: “Having in mind Shakespeare and Shelley, I nevertheless think [these]...

...scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops. At the bent spray's edge, That's the wise thrush. He sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never...could recapture The first fine, careless rapture." Next to Browning's dramatic faculty we should, however, perhaps rank his lyrical capacity, evinced...

...poem, contains the magical and oft-quoted lines on the thrush :— " That's the wise thrush : he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture ! " Next to The Lost Leader comes, in the original edition a sort of companion poem, in— "THE LOST...

...the clover Blossoms and dewdrops —• at the bent spray's edge — That's the wise thrush: he sings each song twice over Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture ! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, And will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups,...

...the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That's the wise thrush : he sings each song twice over Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture ! ) And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, And will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups,...

...Abroad: 169. Each to each. The mother and Luigi, not the lizards. " That 's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never...could recapture The first, fine, careless rapture.*' Stedman says of that passage: " Having in mind Shakespeare and Shelley, I nevertheless think [these]...

...the clover 10 Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge— That's the wise thrush: he sings each song twice over Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture ! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, 15 And will be gay when noontide wakes anew The...

...the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture ! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups,...