With blushing flowers, fresh and glittering yet

With diamond rain-drops. On the crimson ground

A shining volume, clasp'd with gold and jet,

And broken petals of a passion-flower

Lay by the lady of this silent bower.

Her rippling hair fell from her pearly round

That strove to clasp its billowy curls: the light

Hung like a glory on their waves of gold.

Her velvet robe, in many a violet fold,

Like the dark pansy's downy leaf, was bound