 ... of pride, Drooping its beauty o'er the watery clearness, To woo its own sad image into nearness: Deaf to light Zephyrus it would not move ; But still would seem to droop, to pine, to love. So while the Poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gleamings...  The Anglo-Saxon Review - Page 321900Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Kent - 1823 - 498 pages
...to love. So, while the poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gleamings o'er, his fancy shot ; Nor was it long ere he had told the tale Of young Narcissus, and sad Echo's bale." KEATS. The poets have celebrated this flower also by its humbler name of Daffodil : " Bid Amaranthus... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1829 - 398 pages
...to love. So, while the poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gleamings o'er his fancy shot ; Nor was it long ere he had told the tale Of young Narcissus and sad Echo's bait). X ANEMONE. Anemone. Natural Order, Multisiliquce. Ranunculaceee, Juss A Genus of the Polyandria... | |
 | John Keats - 1841 - 254 pages
...pine, to love. So while the poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gleamings o'er his fancy shot ; Nor was it long ere he had told the tale Of young Narcissus, and sad Echo's bale. Where had he been, from whose warm head out flew That sweetest of all songs, that ever new, That aye... | |
 | John Keats - 1846 - 340 pages
...pine, to love. So while the poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gleamings o'er his fancy shot ; Nor was it long ere he had told the tale Of young Narcissus, and sad Echo's half. Where had he been, from whose warm head out flrw That sweetest of all songs, that ever new, That... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1851 - 250 pages
...'he poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gloamings o'er his fancy shot ; Nor was it long e'er he had told the tale Of young Narcissus, and sad Echo's bale." Of the various kinds of narcissus, that which is known by that name alone has a lily flower. The common... | |
 | 1850 - 656 pages
...pine, to loVe. So while the poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gleamings o'er his fancy shot ; Nor was it long ere he had told the tale Of young Narcissus and sad Echo's bale." The mythology of the Greeks however, it is well known, was not wholly of domestic growth. Of their... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1853 - 240 pages
...pine, to love. So while the poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gleaminga o'er his fancy shot; Nor was it long ere he had told the tale Of young Narcissus and sad Echo's vale." The Poet's Narcissus belongs to the Linnsean class Hexandria, and order Monogynia, and to the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 350 pages
...pine, to love. So while the poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gleamings o'er his fancy shot ; Nor was it long ere he had told the tale Of young Narcissus, and sad Echo's vale. \ 4J -i $& ,,^/i i. .•> V".^N ON RECEIVING A BRANCH OF MEZEREON. nf / WHICH FLOWERED AT WOODSTOCK,... | |
 | John Keats - 1855 - 416 pages
...pine, to love. So while the poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gl eamings o'er his fancy shot; Nor was it long ere he had told the tale Of young Narcissus, and sad Echo's bale. Where he had been, from whose warm head outflow That sweetest of all songs, that ever new, That aye... | |
 | Mary Kirby - 1857 - 396 pages
...into nearness. So while the poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gloamings o'er his fancy shot, Nor was it long ere he had told the tale, Of young Narcissus and sad Echo's bale." The Amancaes,* or Golden Lily of St. John, is an amaryllis. It grows in Peru, and is a great favourite... | |
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