 | Hilda Gamlin - 1894 - 414 pages
...leaves, as conscious of their queen's command, Successive fall at her approaching hand, While her soft breast with pity seems to pant, And shrinks at every shrinking of the plant. Ronmey eagerly accepted the idea ; and while he set about arranging a new canvas, Hayley, accompanied... | |
 | Arthur Bensley Chamberlain - 1910 - 528 pages
...leaves, as conscious of their queen's command, Successive fall at her approaching hand ; While her soft breast with pity seems to pant, And shrinks at every shrinking of the plant.' In 1783, Hayley stayed with Ronmey in Cavendish Square for the greater part of January. ' I had the... | |
 | Harriet Guest - 2000 - 362 pages
...which illustrate the poem shows the figure of Sensibility watching the plant respond to her hand, as "her tender breast with pity seems to pant, / And shrinks at every shrinking of the plant" (fig. 9). In Stothard s image, sensibility is girlish, chastely attired, and appropriate to Hayley's... | |
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From which the tender plant Mimosa springs ; Towards its leaves, o'er which she fondly bends, The youthful fair her vacant hand extends With gentle motion, anxious to survey How far the feeling fibres own her sway ; The leaves, as conscious of their queen's... 
