 For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard...  Literature and Living - Page 488by Rollo La Verne Lyman, Howard Copeland Hill - 1925Full view - About this book
 | 1872 - 610 pages
...look at things from the stand-point of the swain in ' Locksley Hall,' who ' Heard the heavens filled with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From...nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; ' that the rapid and varied progress of naval invention dazzles, and appears to baffle us, whichever... | |
 | 1872 - 1120 pages
...commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down their costly bales ; Heard the Heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nation's airy navies, grappling in the central blue : Far along the world-wide whisper of the south... | |
 | 1842 - 788 pages
...twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling...rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm.' —vol. ii. pp. 103, 104. ' Lady Clare' is not memorable ; but the ' Lord... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...twilight, dropping down with -costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling...central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the Till the war-drum throbb'd... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 558 pages
...twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling...central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm.' —vol.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling...central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling...rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm ; Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1845 - 652 pages
...commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilou of the purple twilight, dropping down with еouily bull's ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a...central blue : Far along the world-wide whisper of the south.wind rushing warm, With the standards of the people! plunging through the iliunder-itorm ; Till... | |
 | 1843 - 424 pages
...twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling...central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm; Till the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...purple twilight, dropping down with costly Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling...central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm ; Till... | |
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