 IN a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them; Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime.  The Living Age - Page 2911897Full view - About this book
 | Hermione de Almeida - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 429 pages
...nighted December" as if these creations were endowed with human sentience and memory. In drear nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er...frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime. In drear nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look;... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...silken thread of my own hand's weaving; (1. 1-4) CH; FaPON; FM; PBBP In a Drear-nlghted December 28 ne acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, (1. 1-4) 29 To know the change and feel it, (1. 21) CH; ChER; ELP; EnRP; NOBE; OBEV; OBNC; TEP Keen,... | |
 | John Keats - Poetry - 1994 - 554 pages
...wild, 50 Bard art thou completely! Sweedy with dumb endeavour, A Poet now or never, Litde child Stanzas In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree,...felicity: The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whisde through them; Nor frozen thawings1 glue them From budding at the prime. In a drear-nighted December,... | |
 | John Keats, Robert Gittings - Literary Collections - 1995 - 324 pages
...began, Hast thou felt so content: a grievious feud Hath led thee to this Cave of Quietude. Stanzas i IN a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree,...Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: 5 The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them; Nor frozen thawings glue them From... | |
 | Keith D. White - Apollo (Greek deity) in literature - 1996 - 224 pages
...that "In drear nighted December" does not expect the return of beauty in the spring: In drear nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er...frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime. (1-8) The personification of the tree is typically romantic, but Keats's disassocianon with it is not... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...ascertain a disease, they call it nervous. 5402 54 16 'In drear nighted December' In drear nighted ur drink shall * around With the vertigo-, and my dwarf shall dance. 5272 Volp 5417 Endymion A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Poetry - 2000 - 678 pages
...Literature, November 1944, p. 218n.) The reader will perhaps recall the "Stanzas" by Keats, beginning: In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember . . . No earlier notice has been taken of this by commentators; the poem was not published in England... | |
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