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| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 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 ; 20 And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale, That the light... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1924 - 486 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... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 966 pages
...turf, like the voice and the instrument. Then the pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, ment, The louring brows hung round, p:. If, That the light of its tremulous bells is seen Through their pavilions of tender green ; And... | |
| Edward Stevens Robinson - Psychology - 1926 - 508 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. We have here [says Professor Calkins, commenting upon this... | |
| Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 906 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; 1 The opening stanzas of The Sensitive Plant. And the hyacinth... | |
| Gerrit Dekker - Comparative literature - 1926 - 268 pages
...kleur, uiterlike vorme van 'n sig op duisenderlei wyse openbarende gees, „nurslings of immortality". 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, Which flung... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...the pied wind-flowers and the tulip fierce, tall, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! And narcissi, and of pain; No joys to him pacific sceptres yield, War sounds the And around them the soft stream didrecess, glide and dance Till they die of their own dear loveli-... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1927 - 336 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... | |
| Otto Jespersen - English language - 1927 - 438 pages
...Shelley is very fond of personifying natural objects, as in Sens. Plant : narcissi, the fairest of them all, who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness. In Prom. Unb. similarly of mountains, rivers, etc. Cf. also Mary Shelley F 200 the sun and the heavens,... | |
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