...edge Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge. 'Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass. Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs...like a blue thread loosened from the sky: — So this winged hour is dropped to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned...

...heart to remember ; and what he saw with the outer eye, he colored with the eye of the imagination. "Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky." And what lover of Nature, poet though he might be, would have observed this? "The deer gaze calling,...

...edge Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn hedge. T is visible silence, still as the hour-glass. Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs...inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love. 1881. XXVII. HEART S COMPASS SOMETIMES them seem'st not as thyself alone. But as the meaning of all...

...hawthorn-hedge. Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass. Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly 10 Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: —...When twofold silence was the song of love. SONNET LXI. THE SONG-THROE. (Verf. April 1880; verOff. 1881.) By thine own tears thy song must tears beget,...

...Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge. £, 'Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass. Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky, — 10 So this winged hour is dropped to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,...

...silver Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge. 'T is visible silence, still as the hour-glass. Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs...inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love. XXI. LOVE-SWEETNESS SWEET dimness of her loosened hair's downfall About thy face ; her sweet hands...

...edge Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge. 'Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass. Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.« Das ist ein Bild, das aus der Freude an Licht und Farben geboren ist, hier ist der Dichter ganz Maler...

...the hawthorn-hedge. 'Tis visible silence, still äs the hour-glass. Deep in the sun-searched growthfe the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: — So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh l clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned...

...for example, two lovers enjoying a fete champetre share a moment of silent communion at which they "clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower / This...hour / When twofold silence was the song of love" (1: 86, 1l. 12-13). At this moment, nature itself seems to slip out of time. "[T]he dragon-fly / Hangs...

...edge Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge. T is visible silence, still as the hour-glass. Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs...like a blue thread loosened from the sky: — So this wing's hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned...