...glooms and winding mossy ways. I can not see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs ; But, in embalmed darkness guess...and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets, covered up in leaves; And mid-May's oldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous...

...glooms and winding mossy ways. 40 I cannot sec what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess...grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; White hawthom, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest...

...glooms and winding mossy ways. 5 I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows 45 The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast...

...to a Nightingale': Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coining musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 14. (p. 38) Qu'en savez-vous? What do you know about it? Note that whereas Felix uses tu to his sister,...

...Keats describes the darkness: I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess...wild; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of...

...(4o) lead into the 'embalmed darkness' of reverie figured as a woodland bower in which the poet may guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows...wild; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child. The coming musk-rose, full of...

...formations. " 'I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,' " she murmured, " 'nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, but, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet wherewith the seasonable month endows.' Who said that?" "Will Rogers!" She laughed. "One more guess." "Joe DiMaggio?" "Keats!" "Aha." "How's...

...glooms and winding mossy ways. I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess...wild; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of...

...glooms and winding mossy ways. I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess...endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of...

...ascribe the faculty not to the poet but to his subject, when he praises the natural magic of Keats's White hawthorn and the pastoral eglantine, Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves. But we are brought up short by the final exhibit in that book, from The Merchant of Venice: in such...