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1820
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From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
19
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
22
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
26
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
30
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
34
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
38
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
40
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
42
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
46
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
48
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
52
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
addednounUS /added/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
appears
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From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
Arno
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From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
associations
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From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
atmosphere
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
beauty
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From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
beingauxiliary verbUS /ˈbiːɪŋ/
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
belonging
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From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
certain
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
child
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
collected
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From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
comenounUS /come/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
contributed
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
covetous
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
days
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From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
dear
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
dearly-loved
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
Death
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
dejection
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
delight
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
discouragements
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From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
doorway
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
doubt
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
drawing
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
enclosed
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
end
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
entombed
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
evil
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From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
exhaled
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
face
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
fading
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
flowers
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From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
fortunenounUS /ˈfortune/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
fragrance
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
friend
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
Frontispiece
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
garden
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
gone
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From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
grace
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
graver
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
house
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From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
idea
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From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
illness
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
imagination
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
influences
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
Italian
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
January
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From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
late
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From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
loveliness
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
many
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From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
memorial
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
ministering
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
Mrs
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From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
mysteriousadjectiveUS /mɪˈstɪriəs/
difficult to explain or understand
From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
near
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
nextnounUS /next/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
Night
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
occupied
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From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
old
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
own
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From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
page
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
painful
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From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
Pan
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
panic
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
paramount
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
Pisa
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From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
PLANT
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
poems
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From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
poet
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
poetry
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
propitious
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
provide
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
read
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
reminders
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From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
room
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From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
rose-nymph
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
round
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From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
ruling
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
sense
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
SENSITIVE
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
shadowed
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
Shelley
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
Shelleys
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From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
side
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From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
song
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From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
sorrowful
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
south
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From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
speaks
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
sunshine
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
TheirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
ToparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
very
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
WhenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.
whitheradverbUS /ˈwɪðər/
an old word meaning “to where”
From this reading It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820.
winds
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
winter
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From this reading In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death.
wintry
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
working
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From this reading Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of which we read,—the death of a dearly-loved child, the illness of a dear friend,—contributed, no doubt, to provide that “atmosphere of memorial dejection and very sorrowful delight,” of which an old Italian poet speaks, as being propitious for the working of the imagination.
wrote
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From this reading _Death in the garden_ (_page 42_) _Frontispiece_ _The winds ministering_ _To face page_ 19 _The rose-nymph_ ” 22 _Pan covetous_ ” 26 _Night in the garden_ ” 30 _The ruling grace_ ” 34 _The garden enclosed_ ” 38 _The shadowed doorway_ ” 40 _The garden panic_ ” 46 _Pan paramount_ ” 48 _The garden entombed_ ” 52 THE SENSITIVE PLANT When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry.
