 At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, ' Is there any hope ? ' To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 233edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | 1849 - 802 pages
...poem which we never much admired, The Vision of Sin, Mr Tennyson has the two following lines — " And on the glimmering limit, far withdrawn, God made himself an awful rose of dawn." This image is afterwards repeated in the Princess. Thus— " Till the sun Grew broader toward his death... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...heard a voice upon the slope, Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could...withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn. THE SKIPPING-ROPE. SURE never yet was Antelope Could skip so lightly by. Stand off, or else my skipping-rope... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...heard a voice upon the slope, Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could...withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn. THE SKIPPING-ROPE. SURE never yet was Antelope Could skip so lightly by. Stand off, or else my skipping-rope... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " VOL. II. <J To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could...withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn. THE SKIPPING-ROPE. SURE never yet was Antelope Could skip so lightly by. Stand off, or else my skipping-rope... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 pages
...him sour." At last I heard a voice upon the slope To which an answer peal'd from that high land, Eut in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering...withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn. THE SKIPPING-ROPE. SURE never yet was Antelope Could skip so lightly by. Stand off, or else my skipping-rope... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1850 - 448 pages
...last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, Is there any hope ! To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could...light, of God's righteousness in his punishment, is left in deep uncertainty. Tennyson, like Addison in his " Vision of Mirza," ventures not to withdraw... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1850 - 396 pages
...last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, Is there any hope? To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could...light, of God's righteousness in his punishment, is left in deep uncertainty. Tennyson, like Addison in his " Vision of Mirza," ventures not to withdraw... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 pages
...blame." And one : "He had not wholly quenched his power ; A little grain of conscience made him sour." At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the...withdrawn God made himself an awful rose of dawn. THE SKIPPING-ROPE. SURE never yet was Antelope Could skip so lightly by. Stand off, or else my skipping-rope... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 pages
...blame." And one : " He had not wholly quenched his power ; A little grain of conscience made him sour." At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the...withdrawn God made himself an awful rose of dawn. THE SKIPPING-ROPE. SUHE never yet was Antelope Could skip so lightly by. Stand off, or else my skipping-rope... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...blame." And one : " He had not wholly quenched his power ; A little grain of conscience made him sour." At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the...withdrawn God made himself an awful rose of dawn. THE SKIPPING-ROPE. SURE never yet was Antelope Could skip so lightly by. Stand off, or else my skipping-rope... | |
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