John Keats, selected poems Contents
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- Keats, John
To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
Glory and loveliness have passed away;
For if we wander out in early morn,
No wreathed incense do we see upborne
Into the east, to meet the smiling day:
No crowd of nymphs soft voiced and young, and gay, (5)
In woven baskets bringing ears of corn,
Roses, and pinks, and violets, to adorn
The shrine of Flora in her early May.
But there are left delights as high as these,
And I shall ever bless my destiny, (10)
That in a time, when under pleasant trees
Pan is no longer sought, I feel a free,
A leafy luxury, seeing I could please
With these poor offerings, a man like thee.
In some church services, incense is used to symbolise worship and the presence of the holy. It is swung in a censer at certain points in the Mass.
In classical mythology, a feminine spirit of the fields; in pastoral poetry a synonym for a young woman
A place regarded as holy where people go to worship.
Goddess of plants, flowers and fertility in Roman mythology.
A pastoral god, Hermes' son, who was partly man and partly goat.
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