But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven... The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 - Page 669edited by - 1901 - 1084 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1889 - 552 pages
...retards : Already with thee ! tender is the night, And haply the Queen Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry fays ; But here there is...hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous... | |
| 1890 - 470 pages
...and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan ; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and...wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full... | |
| Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 520 pages
...retards : Already with thee 1 tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry fays ; But here there is...hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose full of dewy wine, The murmurous... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 pages
...retards ; Already with thee tender is the night, And haply the queen-moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry fays ; But here there is...fruit-tree wild: White hawthorn and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-failing violets, covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's oldest child. The coming musk-rose, full... | |
| Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 518 pages
...retards : Already with thee ! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry fays ; But here there is...wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast- fading violets covered up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose full of... | |
| William Hamilton Gibson - 1890 - 212 pages
...of the nightingale : '•Tender is the night, And haply the Queen -moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry fays ; But here there is...wild; White hawthorn, and the pastoral .eglantine; Fast fading violets covered up in leaves ; And mid- May's oldest child, The coming musk -rose, full... | |
| R. P. Hewett - 1985 - 322 pages
...heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. 40 5 I cannot sec what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense...endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; 45 White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's... | |
| John Barnard - 1987 - 192 pages
...(characteristically imaged through images of touch, taste, and smell) which surpasses the 'dull brain' I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what...fruit-tree wild White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine (lines 41-6) Erufymion's luxuriant bowers of interwreathed senses and total satisfaction are metamorphosed... | |
| Paul De Man - 340 pages
...the change that comes over the world by losing oneself in the "embalmed darkness" of the bird's song: I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what...endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild . . . llines 41ff.) The richness of these most un- Words worthian lines can only come into being because... | |
| Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow. IV Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted...wild; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of... | |
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