 Then the pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...  Time's Telescope - Page 2051824Full view - About this book
 | Jennie Day Haines - California - 1906 - 96 pages
...you see around us The enamoured air, You would see it pale with bliss To hold a thing so fair. Ldgh And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes...pale, That the light of its tremulous bells is seen, Through their pavilions of tender green. A Bulb Percy Bysshe Shelley. Misshapen, black, unlovely to... | |
 | Myra Soper Woodley, Oscar Israel Woodley - English language - 1906 - 376 pages
...Cytherea's breath. 9. EJer sunny locks Hang on her temples like a golden fleece. — SHAKESPEARE. 10. And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes...pale, That the light of its tremulous bells is seen Through their pavilions of tender green. 11. . Phoebus, arise ! And paint the sable skies With azure,... | |
 | Katherine Devereux Blake, Georgia Alexander - Children's poetry - 1906 - 116 pages
...tuft, like the voice and the instrument. Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, is Till they die of their own dear loveliness ; And the hyacinth purple and white and blue, Which flung... | |
 | Thomas Charles Blaisdell - English language - 1906 - 428 pages
...Lily-of-the-valley, the bright and morning Star " or in Shelley's lines, And the Naiad-like lily-of-the-vale, Whom youth makes so fair, and passion so pale, That the light of the tremulous bells is seen, Through their pavilions of tender green. "A low, smooth, stemless lily... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 948 pages
...turf, like the voice and the instrument. Then the pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes...recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness ; 2 o And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale That the light... | |
 | Lucy H. Soutar - Gardening - 1909 - 252 pages
...beautiful youth of Greek mythology, who was metamorphosed into the Narcissus, these flowers seem to " Gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness." The chalice cupped varieties of the narcissi are worthy of especial attention, the length of the cup... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 968 pages
...turf, like the voice and the instrument. Then the pied wind-flowers and tlie tulip tall, And narcissi, Council's bosoms beat. As the Pi|>er turned from the High Street T recoss, Till they die of their own dear loveliness ; And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth... | |
 | Walter Page Wright - Floriculture - 1911 - 506 pages
...enough?" — Two Noble Kinsmen. Shelley writes of the flower under the classical name — " Narcissus, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes...recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness." We may assume that the Rose of Sharon, mentioned in the " Song of Solomon," was a Daffodil, although... | |
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