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...st, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ’Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,     But being too happy in thine happiness,—         That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,             In some melodious plot     Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,         Singest of summer in full-throated ease.   II O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been     Cool’d a long...

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... disintegrate that which cannot be disintegrated 1 I encounter no soul or dryad of the tree, but the tree· itse1f. * If I face a human being as my...

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...thered in her train ‘Dieu qui reçois en ton giron humide’ River-god who receives in your humid flow, ‘Ny par les bois les Driades courantes,’ Not Dryads running lightly through the trees, ‘S'il a dict vray, seiche pour moy l'ombrage’ If he spoke true, then parch for me the shade ‘Esprit divin, que la troupe honnorée,’ Spirit divine, whom the honoured band ‘Si nost...

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...(do ́-rus).......................................................................................................................................122 Dryades (dri ́-a-deez).............................................................................................................................122 Dryas (dri ́-ass)...........................................................

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...ce for eons. All of the names for undead entities: brownies, elves, sprites, dryads, ghosts, goblins, ghouls, angels, devils, demons, gods, goddesse...

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...Hovering o’er a fluttered bird; Not unseen of silver Naiad, And of wistful Dryad heard! Many a morn the naked beauty Saw her bright reflection drown I... ...oot the virgin Is transfigured and transformed. 55 Changed!—yet the green Dryad nature Is instinct with human ties, And above its anguish’ d lover Br... ...and over bosom, Laurel leaves and laurel boughs! And in vain the listening Dryad Shells her hand against her ear! – All is silence—save the echo T rav... ...mid-glancing flowers Hastens, till on the fresh reviving breasts Of tender Dryads folded he forgets The pallid witness of those nameless things, In re... ... the rolling foliage fell: But I, who love old hymning night, And know the Dryad voices well, Discerned them as their leaves took flight, Like souls t...

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... eye explored the dim arcade Impatient of the uncoming shade – Shy elf, or dryad pale and cold, Or mystic lingerer from of old: V ainly. The fair and...

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...ANS ANS ANS. Scattered all about. I will call to them. Hola! You fauns and dryads! Where are you? V V V V VOICES OICES OICES OICES OICES. Here! Here! ...

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...n the event, as much outside such defini- tions as a sunrise stroll with a dryad in a dew-drenched forest; and Darrow reflected that mankind would nev... ...marry? Why, he always seems like a faun in flan- nels! I hope he’s found a dryad. There might easily be one left in these blue-and-gold woods.” “I can... ...ft in these blue-and-gold woods.” “I can’t tell you yet where he found his dryad, but she IS one, I believe: at any rate she’ll become the Givre woods...

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...ve a kind of wild- wood grace to her outline—as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing-room; and Selden reflected ... ...ound of foli- age against which she stood, served only to relieve the long dryad-like curves that swept upward from her poised foot to her lifted arm....

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...epresen- tation of one of the pagan goddesses—a Diana, a Flora, a naiad or dryad? I often regret that our American artists should not boldly cast off ... ... boldly cast off that extinct nomenclature.” “She is neither a naiad nor a dryad,” said Roderick, “and her name is as good as yours or mine.” “You cal...

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... to return again. ... The world is full of Woodmen who expel Love’s gentle Dryads from the haunts of life, And vex the nightingales in every dell. ...

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...posing an elegy in Latin verses over the rustic little beauty. He bade the dryads mourn and the river-nymphs deplore her. As her father fol- lowed the...

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... anywhere. Knock at the rough rind of this ilex-tree, and summon forth the Dryad! Ask the water-nymph to rise dripping from yonder foun- tain, and exc...

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... sound in the bush of voices talking, soft as flutes and with quiet intonations. Hope told a flattering tale; I put aside the leaves; and be- hold! in...

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...e Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One That call’d the listening Dryads to the plain? Thames heard the numbers as he flow’d along, And bade ...

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...rated her hair and her young waist, and became a nymph child, or an infant dryad, or whatever else was in closest sympathy with the antique wood. In s...

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...s. Dora, peeping from the floss of her fair hair, hung back like some tiny Dryad, that has no soul. ‘Will you say good-night to me?’ asked Birkin, in ... ...ula broke in, speaking to the little girl. But Dora edged away like a tiny Dryad that will not be touched. ‘Won’t you say good-night to Mr Birkin? Go,...

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...and Mr Arabin explained to Mrs Bold the differ- ence between a naiad and a dryad, and dilated on vases and the shapes of urns. Miss Thorne busied hers... ...ed by the great Mr Plomacy. It was dreadful to be thus dissevered from the dryad, and sent howling back to a Barchester pande- monium just as the nect...

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... IN MEDITATION—REGRET period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and ...