Sheltering, embrace,

(“Summer,” 225-227)

and others merely imitative, as,

the rosy-footed May

Steals blushing on,

(“Spring,” 489-490)

yet there are many which call up by a single word a vivid and picturesque expression, such as the “hollow-whispering breeze” (“Summer,” 919) or the poet’s description of the dismal solitude of a winter landscape

It freezes on

Till Morn, late rising o’er the drooping world

Lifts her pale eyes unjoyous