 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
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 580 pages
...of the water-flag, the noble-looking arrowhead, and the fair and elegant narcissus, which together " Gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness !" How delightful it is to sit in a spot like this — upon the moss-covered trunk of some old tree,... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1851 - 398 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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 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... | |
 | American literature - 1852 - 448 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... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...musical verse. Growing in the garden, with the sensitive plant and other flowers, was " naiad 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." Hood, who in some of his lyrics so much resembles the moral... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 350 pages
...turf, like the voice to the instrument. Then the pied wind-flowers, and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all— Who gaze on their eyes...loveliness ! And the naiad-like lily of the vale, rk „ Whom youth makes so fair, and passion so pale That the light of its tremulous bells is seen... | |
 | Osborn W Trenery Heighway - 1854 - 404 pages
...conceits ; and on the high pale-browed lily, " A fairy thing, Like daylight in its opening." Or, " The naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale." Or, " The lady lily, fairer than the moon," Or, " The lily, a delicate lady, Who sat under her green... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...turf, like the voice and the instrument. Then the pied wind-flowers and the tulip tail, 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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 770 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... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - English poetry - 1855 - 188 pages
...voice and the instrument. Then the pied wind-flowers, and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest of them all, Who gaze on their eyes, in the stream's...Till they die of their own dear loveliness. And the hayacinth, purple, white, and blue, Which flung from their bells a sweet peal anew Of music so delicate,... | |
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