POEMS WRITTEN IN 1820. THE SENSITIVE-PLANT. PART L. A SENSITIVE-PLANT in a garden grew, And the Spring arose on the garden fair, But none ever trembled and panted with bliss The snowdrop, and then the violet, Arose from the ground with warm rain wet, Then the pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall, And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale That the light of its tremulous bells is seen Through their pavilions of tender green; And the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue, And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, And the wand-like lily, which lifted up, As a Mænad, its moonlight-coloured cup, Gazed through the clear dew on the tender sky; And the jessamine faint, and the sweet tube rose, The sweetest flower for scent that blows; |