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    Who is the author and what is the title of the poem that contains the line "The rustling sea was a green world of leaves"?

    Question #97536. Asked by malcy. (Jul 14 08 1:05 PM)


    Baloo55th

    		That makes a slightly awkward line out of context ('The green world of leaves was a rustling sea' makes a more even line, but may not fit in the author's poetic context). It appears not to be Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass', wherein there is 'rustling sea-sound'. Hugh M'Donald has a 'rustling sea of living green' in his 'Rambles Round Glasgow' (Robert Lindsay, Glasgow 1856), but that is supposedly prose. Do have a look at it - they don't write them like that any more. Perhaps just as well... http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r5wHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA400&lpg=PA400&dq=%22rustling+sea+%22+leaves&source=web&ots=Vfbu1b9Dlx&sig=wqi8rYA9kTu8IHoIijMDBrzn5_I&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result
    (Apologies for the link...) It doesn't sound like a translation of Homer, but they are doing some strange ones nowadays.

    Jul 15 08, 4:48 AM

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