 | 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... | |
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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... 
