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" Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every... "
History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun - Page 282
by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1873
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 279

Literature - 1913 - 878 pages
...violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus...shed. And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strow the laureate herse where Lycld lies." For us who are trying, with at any rate more goodwill than...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 91

American periodicals - 1866 - 848 pages
...violet, The musk rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan, that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears. To deck the laureat hearse where Lycid lies." And at the same...
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Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature ..., Volume 6

William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1844 - 624 pages
...violet, The inusk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan, that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears ; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the lauréat herse where Lycid lies. Thus sang the...
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Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature ..., Volume 6

William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1844 - 590 pages
...head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears ; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureat herse where Lycid lies. ***** Thus sang the swain to the oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with sandals grey."...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...cowslips wan, that hang the pensive head, And every flower, that sad embroidery wears ; Bid amaranthua all his beauty shed. And daffadillies fill their cups...tears, To strew the laureat herse where Lycid lies. For so to interpose a little cause, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Ah me ! Whilst...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...violet, 25 The musk-rose, and the well-attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strow the laureat hearse where Lycid lies ; For, so to...
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Imagination and fancy; or Selections from the English poets, with critical ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...violet, 55 The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureat hearse where Lycid lies; For, so to interpose...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...violet,35 The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureat hearse where Lycid lies ; For, so to...
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The Genius and Character of Burns

John Wilson - 1845 - 248 pages
...violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the Laureat herse where Lycid lies." All who know...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...violet, 28 The musk-rose, and the well-attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strow the laureat hearse where Lycid lies ; For, so to...
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