 | Nicholas Roe - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 344 pages
...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 child. The coming...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves (43-5o) — much as he had delighted to catalogue 'luxuries' in his earlier poems. But in "Ode to a... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...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 child, The coming...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. VI Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft... | |
 | Mary Oliver - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 212 pages
...seasonable month 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...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. VI Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...with thee! tender is the night. 'Ode to a Nightingale' 1 1820! st. 4 12 Fast fading violets covered up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming...musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt offlies on summer eves. 'Ode to a Nightingale' 1 1 820) st. 5 13 Darkling I listen; and, for many a... | |
 | Thomas McFarland - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 268 pages
...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 child, The coming...dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.83 Prefigured by such floral richness and profusion, the death invoked by the next stanza can... | |
 | Susan J. Wolfson - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 324 pages
...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 child, The coming...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. (Ode to a Nightingale 41-50) I know a banke where the wilde thyme blowes, Where Oxslips and the nodding... | |
 | Frances Mayes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 548 pages
...eglantine; Fast fading violets covered up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming 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... | |
 | Peter Bernhardt - Gardening - 2002 - 280 pages
...best contemplated in comfort. I hope that the soul of CK Sprengel reposes on a lotus bloom. CHAPTER 1O And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose,...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale" Unloved but Efficient I, Insects on prized roses receive more hateful... | |
 | Oxford Univ Pr - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 388 pages
...after a walking tour in Scotland and later died in Rome of tuberculosis. » Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child. The coming musk-rose, full of deny wine. The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. JOHN KEATS 'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) Helen... | |
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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... 
