W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
The Song Of Wandering Aengus http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1690/ <br class="br">The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
She walks among the patterned pied brocade,
Each flower her son, and every tree her daughter.
"The Island", in Bulletin of the Garden Club of America (1929), p. 1, also in Collected Poems (1934), p. 54
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
The Song Of Wandering Aengus http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1690/ <br class="br">The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
“She walks the waters like a thing of life,
And seems to dare the elements to strife.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Canto I, stanza 3.
The Corsair (1814)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott
Pt. III, st. 5
The Lady of Shalott (1832)
Context: She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She looked down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror cracked from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Source: Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage