 THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist,...  The poetical works of Alfred Tennyson - Page 128by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873Full view - About this book
 | 1881 - 622 pages
...tree. 0 earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars hath besn The stillness of the central sea. ' The hills are shadows, and they...stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.' And then in another instant the poet proceeds thus : — ' But... | |
 | 1850 - 806 pages
...form with empty hands ;' and again : — ' There, where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they...stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands. Like clouds they shape themselves and go.' A passage wherein is harmonized sublimity of thought and of expression.... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 pages
...0 Earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There, where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they...stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, — Like clouds, they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it... | |
 | 1921 - 472 pages
...tree. 0 earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they...stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go." (Tennyson, In Mrmorlam, cxx111.) In dealing, then, with the nature... | |
 | 1891 - 850 pages
...tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen I There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they...stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands Like clouds they shape themselves and go. It is remarkable that Browning, though supreme in his adjustment... | |
 | 1863 - 478 pages
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 | Geological Society of London - 1907 - 742 pages
...claimed for this Alpine region, so that here we must suppose the poet's words to have come true : ' The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands.' To return, however, to the experiments with cobbler's wax. In those recently described, layers, representing,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...tree. O earth, what changes hast them seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they...stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...tree. 0 earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they...stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 910 pages
...form with empty hand* ;' and again : — ' There, where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they...stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.' A passage wherein is harmonized sublimity of thought and of expression.... | |
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