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 | 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... | |
 | Paul Bourget - Aesthetics - 1911 - 406 pages
...la nuance d'âme qu'il indique!... Cette femme meurt, (l) And Narcissi, the fairest among them ail, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness. And the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue. Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew Of music so delicate,... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1912 - 522 pages
...dichter ein gefühlvolles herz, ein liebes wort. Und wie innig ist seine neigung zu den, „narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes...recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness." (P W. 584, 18.) Sie alle sind in neuer Schönheit aus den träumen der düsteren winternacht erwacht.... | |
 | Henry Sweet - Comparative linguistics - 1913 - 640 pages
...ever gaze on their own drooping eyes, Reflected in the crystal calm. (Alastor, 406.) And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes...recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness, (Sensitive Plant, i. 18.) The rivulet . . . through the plain in tranquil wanderings crept, Reflecting... | |
 | Delphian Society - 1913 - 566 pages
...on their eyes in the stream's recess Till they die of their own dear loveliness. And the maid-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair, and passion...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 from... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1901 - 712 pages
...tnrf, 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 'i Till they die of their own dear loveliness; 10 L— __ And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom... | |
 | Music - 1924 - 748 pages
...of Shelley's passionate apprehension of beauty, and of those lines of his: "And Narcissi, fairest of them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess Till they die of their own dear loveliness." The work is a cantata for women's voices. Treble-voice pupils in our elementary schools could manage... | |
 | Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - Readers - 1917 - 386 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...recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness. A MODEST WIT I A supercilious nabob of the east — Haughty, being great — purse-proud, being rich,... | |
 | Bernhard Fehr - 1918 - 262 pages
...Blumengefühl nicht die Veilchen, sondern die Narzissen beseelt. Shelley: and uarcissi Who gaze 011 their eyes in the stream's recess Till they die of their own dear loveliness. Wilde's Eros: where half afraid Of their own loveliness some violets lie. Wenn wir also einen Shelleyschen... | |
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