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... Cyclopædia of English literature - Page 406by Robert Chambers - 1844Full view - About this book
| R. P. Hewett - English Poetry - 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 - Literary Collections - 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 - Literary Criticism - 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 - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. I cannot see what flowers...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... | |
| American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...了有一線天光, 被倣風帶過 蔥綠的幽暗, 和苔碎的曲徑。 我看不出是哪種花草在腳旁, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But,...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 dewy wine, The murmurous... | |
| Stuart M. Sperry - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...coming musk rose, just as the beauty of the region is the more seductive because it cannot be seen: I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what...endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild. (4»-45) The elimination of the primary sense intensifies the others; in Keats's phrase, it leaves... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...heaven is with the breezes blown 'I"hrough verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. 40 I cannot sec what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense...grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; White hawthom, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest... | |
| Keith D. White - Apollo (Greek deity) in literature - 1996 - 224 pages
...his pards, / But on the viewless wings of Poesy." In the next stanza Keats describes the darkness: I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what...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... | |
| William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. I cannot see what flowers...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... | |
| Mary Oliver - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 212 pages
...But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. I cannot see what flowers...endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of... | |
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