 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1884 - 654 pages
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme : What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...Arcady? What men or gods are these ? What maidens loath ? What mad pursuit ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard... | |
 | John Keats - 1884 - 310 pages
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme : What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, What mad pursuit ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy ? Heard melodies... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 686 pages
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme : What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loath ? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard... | |
 | Martin Gayford, Karen Wright - Art - 2000 - 654 pages
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to... | |
 | Thomas McFarland - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 268 pages
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?48 Though the observer, the philosophical subject, is alive, and the urn, a figured object,... | |
 | David S. Ferris - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 276 pages
...know precisely what is being looked at. Consider these lines from the first stanza: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? Presumably, if one knew what was being looked at on the urn, one could ask, What deities are these?... | |
 | Susan J. Wolfson - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 324 pages
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? (3-10) It is as if Keats's speaker were deliberately replacing the knowledge possessed by Theocritus's... | |
 | Frances Mayes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 548 pages
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to... | |
 | Nikki Moustaki - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 376 pages
...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to... | |
 | Albert E. Richardson - Architecture - 2001 - 236 pages
...than our rhyme : What Ieaf-fringed legend haunts ahout thy shape Of deities or mortals or of hoth, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these ? What maidens Ioth : What mad pursuit ? Wha1 struggles to escape ? What pipes and timhrels ,! What wild ecstasy r... | |
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THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both,... 
