 To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height; To hear each other's whisper'd speech; Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray; To...  Californian Illustrated Magazine - Page 5931892Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 416 pages
...worth living for, to " Have rest, and ripen towards the grave In silence, ripen, fall, and cease." " How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...in a half-dream ! To dream, and dream, like yonder amoer light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whisper'd speech... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 pages
...grave In silence, ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease ! 5. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whisper'd speech ; Eating... | |
 | 1865 - 838 pages
...the hollow lotus-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like gods together, careless of mankind." "How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! " But in the north life is full of energy and vigorous action while daylight lasts. Who cares though... | |
 | 1910 - 848 pages
...mark an expression of awful melancholy in that still face of bronze? THB DISCONTKNTBD ENST.ISHMAK. "How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...eyes ever to seem Falling asleep In a half-dream." — The I/otos-Eaterg. There Is a saying on the Outskirts anent the first public works which are wont... | |
 | 1910 - 862 pages
...to mark an expression of awful melancholy in that still face of brouze? THE DISCONTBNTED KNOUSHMAN. "How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream." — The Lotos-Eaters. There is a saying on the Outskirts anent the first public works which are wont... | |
 | 1845 - 682 pages
...grave In silence, ripen, fall, and cease. Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream. With...half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, " People. And what punishment Will you inflict upon the Magabeean Who acted thus ? Black-pudding-seller.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...grave In silence, ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease ! 5. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whisper 'd speech ; Eating... | |
 | 1845 - 608 pages
...— In silence, ripen, fall, and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease ! 'How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half dream ! To dream a dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
 | 1879 - 442 pages
...frightfully common that no sense remains. I sometimes wish we were all a little more given to dreaming. '' How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ; ****** How sweet (while warm airs lull us, blowing lowly) With half-dropt eyelids still, Beneath... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 pages
...grave, In silence ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease ! o. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...half-dream! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height; To hear each other's whispered speech; Eating the... | |
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