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 Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate - Page 139by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891Full view - About this book
| 1881 - 622 pages
...where grew the 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...lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.' And then in another instant the poet proceeds thus : — ' But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream... | |
| 1850 - 806 pages
...stands A hollow form with empty hands ;' and again : — ' There, where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are...lands. Like clouds they shape themselves and go.' A passage wherein is harmonized sublimity of thought and of expression. For instant vividness, on the... | |
| Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 pages
...where grew the 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...dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For, though my lips may breathe adieu, I cannot think the thing " Farewell." Stanza I. 2. What changes,... | |
| 1921 - 472 pages
...where grew the 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...lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go." (Tennyson, In Mrmorlam, cxx111.) In dealing, then, with the nature and relations of phenomena, we should... | |
| 1891 - 850 pages
...where grew the 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...solid lands Like clouds they shape themselves and go. It is remarkable that Browning, though supreme in his adjustment of moral harmony, and profoundly intellectual... | |
| 1871 - 808 pages
...breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler endi." But his dream must be true, because it is so noble : " In my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream and hold it true." And thus he considers himself entitled to describe his lost friend not as what he really was, but as... | |
| 1871 - 878 pages
...truths that never can be proved Until we close with all we loved And all we flow from, soul in soul." 1 In my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream and hold it true." It has been said that " In Memoriam " is tinctured with scepticism. The sceptiAnd thus he considers... | |
| 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,... | |
| Geological Society of London - 1900 - 1002 pages
...Mesozoic era. Did the Bunter rivers run northward, we might indeed exclaim with Tennyson : ' The hille are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands.' But in one direction we find the physical and lithological conditions very nearly satisfied — namely... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...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...breathe adieu, I cannot think the thing farewell. 190 CXXII. THAT which we dare invoke to bless ; Our dearest faith ; our ghastliest doubt ; He, They,... | |
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