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" Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is 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 sweet as love,... "
Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Southey to ... - Page 555
by John Aikin - 1845 - 760 pages
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not: Like a high-born...Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view: Like a rose embowered In its own green leaves, By warm winds...
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Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance

Emerson R. Marks - 1998 - 428 pages
...A single stan/.a of Shelley's poem occasioned the kind of detailed analysis he would have welcomed: Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower Soothing...Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflowed her bower. "Not a sound of a vowel in the quatrain," Hunt points out, "resembles that of...
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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is 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 sweet as love, which overflows...
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The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems

Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 pages
...poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not; Like a high-born...Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view; Like a rose embowered In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflowered,...
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Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-century British Culture ...

Frank Palmeri - 2006 - 256 pages
..."roof the glow-worm from the morning dew" (56, 57). In "To a Sky-Lark" the bird's song is compared to "a glow-worm golden / In a dell of dew, / Scattering unbeholden / Its aerial hue" (46-49). There are "flames" in Prometheus Unbound that "almost / To a glowworm's lamp have dwindled"...
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Coleridge and Shelley: Textual Engagement

Sally West - 2007 - 222 pages
...characteristics of overflowing emotion from a concealed source: Like a high-born maiden In a palace-tower. Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour. With...Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view: Like a rose embowered In its own green leav es By warm winds deflowered...
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Romantic Women Poets: Genre and Gender

Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Cecilia Pietropoli - 2007 - 281 pages
...the skylark is first compared to the "poet hidden / In the light of thought", and is then said to be Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing...hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower.95 Stevenson concludes that for Tennyson the enclosed woman figures the poet, and in this group...
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