CLEMATIS. 118 



Mr. Keats makes mention of the Clematis in a passage, 

 of which, as it relates entirely to flowers, it may, perhaps, 

 be allowable to quote the whole. He describes a youth 

 sleeping in a bower walled with myrtle : 



" Above his head 



Four lily-stalks did their white honours wed, 

 To make a coronal, and round him grew 

 All tendrils green, of every bloom and hue ; 

 Together intertwined, and trammel'd fresh : 

 The vine of glossy sprout ; the ivy-mesh, 

 Shading its Ethiop berries ; and woodbine 

 Of velvet leaves, and bugle blooms divine ; 

 Convolvulus in streaked vases flush ; 

 The creeper, mellowing for an autumn blush ; 

 And virgin's bower, trailing airily, 

 With others of the sisterhood." 



ENDYMION, p. 72. 



This poet appears to allude to the Clematis and the 

 Honeysuckle in the following passage : 



" The sweet-lipped ladies have already greeted 

 All the green leaves that round the window clamber 

 To show their purple stars, and bells of amber." 



KEATS' s POEMS, p. 26. 



Wherever a lattice is mentioned, the Clematis is expected 

 to run over it : 



" In all the calmness of a cloudless eve, 

 How gently dies a long, long summer's day, 

 O'er yon broad wood, as loth to take its leave, 

 It sheds at parting its most lovely ray, 

 And golden lights o'er all the landscape play, 

 And languid zephyrs waft their rich perfume, 

 Where the wide lattice gives them open way, 

 And breathe a freshness round the twilight room, 

 From jasmine, clematis, and yellow-blossomed broom." 



From an unpublished Collection by 

 different Authort. 



