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" Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick... "
The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports ... - Page 253
by William Hone - 1827
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...ยป Thou wert not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Oharm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the...
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Moxon's standard penny readings [ed. by T. Hood]., Volume 3

Moxon Edward and co - 200 pages
...sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the...
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...* Thou wert not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : r Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home...
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David Gray, and Other Essays: Chiefly on Poetry

Robert Williams Buchanan - Poetics - 1868 - 340 pages
...โ€” Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears among the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic...
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A handbook of poetry. To which is added a new poetica anthology and a ...

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...Thou wast not horn for death, immortal bird, โ€” No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Rnth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn โ€” The same that ofttimes...
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A household book of English poetry, selected with notes by R.C. Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...60 Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...clown : Perhaps the self-same song that found a path 65 Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The...
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The Book of Gems: The eighteenth and nineteenth century. Wordsworth to Tennyson

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1868 - 328 pages
...wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hnngry generations tread thee down ; The voice I heard this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same song that fonnd a path Throngh the sad heart of Rnth, when sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn...
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Double acrostic enigmas, with poetical descriptions selected principally ...

Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1868 - 246 pages
..." THOU wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and by clown ; Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Iluth, when, sick...
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Leaves from the Poets' Laurels

American poetry - 1869 - 254 pages
...sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...amid the alien corn : The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the...
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The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. Carpenter

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the...
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