 Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir, Save from one gradual solitary gust Which comes upon the silence, and dies off As if the ebbing air had but one wave...  The Contemporary Review - Page 5351866Full view - About this book
 | Sir Sidney Colvin - Poets, English - 1887 - 252 pages
...celebrated passage of the poem. Or let us examine one of its most characteristic images from nature : " As when, upon a tranced summer night, Those green-robed...stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir." Not to the simplicity of the Greek, but to the complexity of the modern sentiment of nature, it belongs... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - Quotations, English - 1890 - 426 pages
...cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green. Dickens Thou green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed...stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir. John Keats I'd be a butterfly born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet. Th. llaynes... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1889 - 552 pages
...slumbrous solitude ? Why should I ope thy melancholy eyes ? Saturn, sleep on : while at thy feet I weep." As when, upon a tranced summer night Those green-robed...solitary gust Which comes upon the silence, and dies off As if the ebbing air had but one wave, So came these words and went ; the while in tears She touched... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1890 - 376 pages
...Yet, a single actor does not make a play. These Similes of fancy are abundant in Keats. For example— As when, upon a tranced summer night, Those green-robed...solitary gust Which comes upon the silence, and dies off, As if the ebbing air had but one ware ; So came these words and went. The idea to be expressed... | |
 | John Bayley - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 384 pages
...Singeth a quiet tune. Or Keats's in Hyperion. As when, upon a tranced summer night, Those green-rob'd senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed...Dream, and so dream all night without a stir, Save for one gradual solitary gust Which comes upon the silence, and dies off, As if the ebbing air had... | |
 | Edgar Mertner, Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt - 968 pages
...summer-night Those green-rob'd senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest star?, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir, Save...solitary gust Which comes upon the silence, and dies off, As if the ebbing air had but one wave ; So came these words and went. A GOD RECLINING IN SORROW.... | |
 | Walter Jackson Bate - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 784 pages
...descriptive passages in English blank verse: As when, upon a tranced summer-night, Those green-rob'd senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed...solitary gust Which comes upon the silence, and dies off, As if the ebbing air had but one wave; So came these words and went; the while in tears She touch'd... | |
 | Arts - 1875 - 398 pages
...; O how frail To that large utterance of the early Gods ! " " As when, upon a tranced summer-night, Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks,...solitary gust Which comes upon the silence, and dies off, As if the ebbing air had but one wave : So came these words and went." " Here found they covert... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. (1. 35—36) 22 Those green-rob'd "There comes (1. 73-75) 23 I am gone Away from my own bosom: (1. 112—113) Keats POETRY QUOTATIONS 25 For as in... | |
 | John Keats, Robert Gittings - Literary Collections - 1995 - 324 pages
...summer-night, Those green-rob'd senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, 75 Dream, and so dream all night without a stir, Save...solitary gust Which comes upon the silence, and dies off, As if the ebbing air had but one wave; So came these words and went; the while in tears 80 She... | |
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