 Untouched thy honied blossoms blow, Unseen thy little branches greet: No roving foot shall crush thee here, No busy hand provoke a tear. By Nature's self in white arrayed, She bade thee shun the vulgar eye, And planted here the guardian shade, And sent...  Studies in Philology - Page 151925Full view - About this book
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - American poetry - 1923 - 552 pages
...truthfully hear, the message of the poet will never AMERICAN POETRY PHILIP FRENEAU THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, 5 Untouched thy honied blossoms grow Unseen thy little branches greet; No roving foot shall crush thee... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - American literature - 1922 - 648 pages
...— And to go, we know not where, 60 With your song of "Katydid." THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE PHILIP FRENEAU Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow. Unseen thy little branches greet; No roving foot shall crush thee here, 8 No... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...cruel reign, Till she ever, thus defeated, Yields the scepter of the main. THE WILD HONEY SUCKLE1 FAW flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Lntouched thy honied blossoms blow, Unseen thy little branches greet: No roving foot shall crush thee... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...the Lily shall run you on shore, And your lion shall growl, but never bite more. THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this...branches greet. No roving foot shall crush thee here, s No busy hand provoke a tear. By Nature's self in white arrayed, She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...keep; The posture, that we give the dead, Points out the soul's eternal sleep. The Wild Honeysuckle 5 rsity Press (1. 1-2) 6 The flowers that did in Eden bloom; Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power Shall leave no... | |
 | Peter Loewer - Gardening - 2000 - 260 pages
...wetlands. His thoughts in "The Wild Honeysuckle" hold dark forebodings of things to come: Fairßower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull...Nature's self in white arrayed, She bade thee shun thy vulgar eye, And planted here the guardian shade, And sent soft water murmuring by; Thus quietly... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pages
...flower as a symbol of unseen, unappreciated, transient beauty and excellence. From its opening lines Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, to its closing couplet The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower this poem sustains... | |
 | Elizabeth Silverthorne - Nature - 2002 - 268 pages
...immortalized the honeysuckle in a sensitive nature poem called "The Wild Honey Suckle," in which he says: Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this...honied blossoms blow, Unseen thy little branches greet . . . I ns Iris Family (Iridaceae) Common Names: Flag, Fleur-de-lis, Blue-eyed Grass, Celestial, Southern... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...prevail, And happier systems bring to view, Than all the eastern sages knew. ,785 The Wild Honey Suckle Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow, 4. While white Americans might celebrate free- 5. Goddess who inspired poetry,... | |
 | Mareike Hachemer - 2007 - 42 pages
...declining" (12). Anaphora is sometimes used in the rhyming couplet at the end of each stanza as in "No roving foot shall crush thee here, / No busy hand provoke a tear" (5f) or "The space between is but an hour, / The frail duration of a flower" (23f). In the third and... | |
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