...sequestered and flowery nook of the place he describes so feelingly. In the last verses of thn decry, he speaks of it again with the same feeling of its...infant's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing tlowers along the grass is spread. "And gray walls moulder round, on which dull iime Feeds lik« slow...

...here, and read the lines he himself wrote on the death of his friend and brother-poet, Keats : — "The spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to...over the dead A light of laughing flowers along the graves is spread ; And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds like slow fire upon a hoary...

...rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to...dead A light of laughing flowers along the grass is u And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand ; And one...

...rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to...dead A. light of laughing flowers along the grass if spread ; L. And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary...

...rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to...the dead A light of laughing flowers along the grass i» L. And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand ;...

...laid to sleep. It was a lovely sequestered spot, " A slope of green access, Where, like an infunt's smile over the dead, A light of laughing flowers, along the grass in spruad." CHAPTER XXX. "Canst tli.,, i minister to n mind diseased, Plunk from the memory a rooted...

...rbe, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses, dres* The bones of Desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to...light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. ADONAtS. 355 And grey walls moulder round, on which dull Tima Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand;...

...rise, And flowering weeds and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness I Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to...light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread." Another characteristic common to all these poems is what may be called the personal element—ie, the...

...olives in the environs of Florence, Beatrice was laid to sleep. It was a lovely sequestered spot, " A slope of green access, Where, like an infant's smile...light of laughing flowers, along the grass is spread." CHAPTER XXX. " Canst thou minister to a mind diseased, Plnck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Haze...

...rise, And flowering weeds and fragrant copses dress The bones of desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of creen access, Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flowers along the gross...