 I cannot see what flowers are at my feet Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;...  Landscape in Poetry from Homer to Tennyson - Page 218by Francis Turner Palgrave - 1897 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1875 - 448 pages
...grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast-fading violets, cover'd up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling* I listen; and, for many a time, I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...sacred ground Shall weeds and pois'nous plants refuse to bear; Each common bush shall Syrian roses wear. Mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. KEATS : Ode to a Nightingale. Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the roseMi LTON. So thick the roses... | |
 | 1876 - 564 pages
...hawthorn and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets, covered up in leaves; And mid-May's oldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of bees on summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 pages
...embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows Past-fading violets covered up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...thicket, and the fruit-tree wild ; White hawthorn and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves, And Mid-May's eldest child, The coming...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling I listen, and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...and the fruit-tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast fading violets covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...thicket, and the fruit-tree wild, White hawthorn and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets, covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...eglantine ; Fast fading violets covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk -rose, ; stripped, indeed, of his summer foliage, but more Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 pages
...grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 3 Darkling2 I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death ; Call'd him... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets, covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coining musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling I listen : and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft... | |
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