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" In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And, like a downward smoke, the slender... "
The Practical Elements of Rhetoric - Page 55
by John Franklin Genung - 1895 - 488 pages
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Chapters on the Poets of Ancient Greece

Henry Alford - 1841 - 272 pages
...did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full faced above the valley stood the moon ;* And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along...cliff to fall, and pause, and fall did seem. A land of streams—some like a downward smoke, Slow dropping veils of thinnest lawn did go; And some through...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 8

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along...Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming...
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The New Englander, Volume 8

1850 - 676 pages
...did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along...Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming...
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Poems, Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 pages
...did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. n. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ;...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 109

1871 - 878 pages
...did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream, Full faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause, and fall did seem," show to demonstration that poetry has a province where it is no blemish but a beauty and congruity...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. n. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ;...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. XL A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...did go ; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows hroke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner...
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Sleep and Dreams; Two Lectures

John Addington Symonds - 1851 - 110 pages
...did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream; Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along...the cliff to fall, and pause, and fall did seem." But all corporeal or physical auxiliaries ; darkness, or a soft subdued light ; silence, or lulling...
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Poems, Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 pages
...did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. IT. A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 404 pages
...did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along...And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Boiling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land...
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