 Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo !...  The Poets of the Nineteenth Century - Page 445edited by - 1858 - 616 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...like a goad. Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based...barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...like a goad. Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based...barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang 'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery...barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 pages
...harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang 'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery...barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 pages
...like a goad. Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based...level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon. Tlien saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 pages
...harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clanged round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery...barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pages
...harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clanged round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery...barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 522 pages
...like a goad. Dry claih'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based...level lak'e, And the long glories of the winter moon." The two last lines place you on the very spot : you see it almost with your bodily eyes. And marvellous... | |
 | 1855 - 594 pages
...intuition of the concluding lines. What a noble picture also is this from the "Morte D'Arthur Г'— "Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending, they were 'ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms, Black-stoled,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...like a goad. Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based...barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled,... | |
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