...application of the language of flowers than " There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion flower at the gate, She is coming, my dove, my dear, She...is late," The larkspur listens, " I hear, I hear," The canto in which this occurs is indeed a delightful oasis in the midst of strange deserts of poetical...

...head, sunning over with curls. To the flowers, and be their sun. There has t Allen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my...near And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;' The la'kspur listens, ' 1 hear 1 heur,1 And the lily whispers, * 1 wait.' She is coming, my own, my sweet...

...Maud ' he writes : — There hag fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She i< coming, my dove, my dear ; She is coming, my life, my fate. Rosaline, in ' Love's Labour 's Lost,' says, Act V. sc. ii. : — That aarae Biron I '11 torture ere...

...head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my...near, she is near ;* And the white rose weeps, 'She la late ;* The larkspur listens, ' I bear, I hear ;' And the lily whispers, ' I wait.' She is coming,...

...head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate, She is coming, my...hear, I hear ;' And the lily whispers, ' I wait.' She is coming, my own, my sweet ; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were...

...waiting for Maud, is the subject. Allow the tenth stanza : — " There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my...hear, I hear ' ; And the lily whispers, ' I wait.' " Sections xxn., xxm., and xxiv. evidently serve as a preface to the madness so strikingly and thrillingly...

...sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. 10. There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my...hear, I hear ;' And the lily whispers, * I wait.* 11. My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed ; My dust would hear her and beat,...

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...and bo their sun. 318 319 There hae fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate, She U coming, my dove, my dear; She Is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, • She is near, she !e near ;' And the white rose weeps, • She is late;' The larkspur listens, ' I hear, I hear;* And...

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