I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild... Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 721854Full view - About this book
| Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. • v. 1 cannot see what flowers are at my feet, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith...hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous... | |
| Penny readings - 1866 - 304 pages
...mossy ways. I canjiot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith...hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous... | |
| Moxon Edward and co - 200 pages
...mossy ways. I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith...hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous... | |
| Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...ease. * » * * I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith...and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets, cover' d up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous... | |
| Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...full-throated ease. I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith...and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets, cover'd up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1867 - 360 pages
...upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the...hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...mossy ways. 40 I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith...endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild ; 45 White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1868 - 328 pages
...flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs npon the bonghs, Bnt, in embalmed darkness, gness each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the frnit-tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets cover'd np in leaves... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...mossy ways. I cannot Bee what flowers arc at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith...pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of... | |
| American poetry - 1869 - 254 pages
...mossy ways. I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith...pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of... | |
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