...farmer might study with profit. CHAPTER III. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BIRDS. " What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody." SHELLEY'S "SKYLARK." " Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these ? Do you ne'er think who made...

...one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. 17 Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To...

...art we know not ; what is most like thee ? From rainbow-clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not : Like a high-born maiden in a palace-tower, Soothing her love-laden soul in secret hour With music...

...but now she utters a peal of glad music, and " showers a rain of melody," without stint or limit, " Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not." But why is the nightingale called " love-lorn " ? That song is full of joy and rapture. I know Shakespeare...

...overflowed. What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow-clouds there flow not Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not : Like a high-born maiden, In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music...

...one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there...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 To sympathy...

...metre of Shelley — itself lark-like in its spontaneity, VOL. xvi. T " What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there...see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody." Keenly listening, we linger and linger, drinking in this " rain " and straining our eyes after the...

..."Beauty is Truth, Truth, Beauty ; this is all ye know and all ye need to know." Or Shelley : — • "Like a poet hidden In the light of thought Singing...wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not." To set forth Truth in the forms of Beauty is the function of the poet, the maker, the creator. And...

...lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. " What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there...see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. " Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found,...

...FPL; MOS; Par; PoLF To a Skylark 69 Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, (1. 1-2) 70 (1. 36^*0) To Night 74 Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed. Murmured like a noontide bee. Shall I...