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 | Penny readings - 1866 - 256 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...and passion so pale, That the light of its tremulous bella is seen Through the pavilions of tender green ; And the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 500 pages
...instrument. Then the pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among I hem ail, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till...pale, That the light of its tremulous bells is seen Through their pavillons of tender green ; And the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue, Which flung... | |
 | Acrostics - 1867 - 302 pages
...veil." 0. " Its golden tip Twice touched the monarch's manly lip, And twice his hand withdrew." 10. " The fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes...recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness." T 11. " As their great grey masses Closed our lines of red, The rush, the roar, the wrestling, The... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 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 ; 1 "I am aware that quoting a few stanzas I place as a specimen of the building he had fol TO TV Sfiitifirf... | |
 | Robert Tyas - Flower language - 1869 - 298 pages
...tale Of young Narcissus, and sad Echo's vale." Shelley, admiring the flower, wrote, " And Narcissi, the fairest among them all— Who gaze on their eyes...recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness !" THE POLIANTHES (P. tubcrosa).—VOLUPTUOUSNESS. THIS beautiful and most odoriferous flower, commonly... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 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...in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own sweet loveliness ; And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English poetry - 1870 - 524 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...pale, that the light of its tremulous bells is seen through their pavilions of tender green ; and the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue, which flung... | |
 | Wonders - 1870 - 264 pages
...sunlight : — * "The pied wind-flowers, and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all 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; And the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue,... And the rose... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 628 pages
...like the voice and the instrument. v. 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; VI. And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair, and passion so pale, That the light... | |
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