 That, stirr'd with languid pulses of the oar, Waves all its lazy lilies, and creeps on, Barge-laden, to three arches of a bridge Crown'd with the minster-towers. The fields between Are dewy-fresh, browsed by deep-udder'd kine, And all about the large...  Saint Pauls - Page 4471873Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 788 pages
...bridge Crown'd with the minster-towers. The fields between Are dewy-fresh, brows'd by decp-udder'd kine, And all about the large lime feathers low, The lime a summer home of murmurous wings.' Or take the companion picture, where this view is alive with human passion : — ' There sat we down... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...bridge Crown'd with the minster-towers. The fields between Are dewy-fresh, brows'd by deep-udder'd kine, And all about the large lime feathers low, The lime a summer home of murmurous wings. In that still place she, hoarded in herself, Grew, seldom seen : not less among us lived Her fame from... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...bridge Crown'd with the minster-towers. The fields between Are dewy-fresh, brows'd by deep-udder'd kine, And all about the large lime feathers low, The lime a summer home of murmurous wings. In that still place she, hoarded in herself, Grew, seldom seen : not less among us lived Her fame from... | |
 | 1892 - 890 pages
...Crown'd with the minster-towers. The fields between Are dewy fresh, browsed by deep-udder' d kine, And all about the large lime feathers low, The lime a summer home of murmurous wings. And what accumulation of details, however lovingly chosen and delicately wrought, can match the stern... | |
 | 1915 - 862 pages
...we have fresh and fragrant memories of "broad ambrosial aisles of lofty lime," and of fields "where all about the large lime feathers low" — "the lime a summer home of murmurous wings"; and there flashes before our mental vision what is perhaps the most brilliant line in all poetry —... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...Crown 'd with the minster-towers. The fields between Are dewy-fresh, brows 'd by deep-udder 'd kine, And all about the large lime feathers low, The lime a summer home of murmurous wings. In that still place she, hoarded in herself, Grew, seldom seen : not less among us lived Her fame from... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 pages
...bridge Crown'd with the minster-towers. The fields between Are dewy-fresh, brows'd by deep-udder'd kine, And all about the large lime feathers low, The lime a summer home of murmurous wings. In that still place she, hoarded in herself, Grew, seldom seen : not less among us lived Her fame from... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 pages
...bridge Crowned with the minster-towers. The fields between Are dewy-fresh, browsed by deep-uddered kine, And all about the large lime feathers low, The lime a summer home of murmurous wings. In that still place she, hoarded in herself, Grew, seldom seen : not less among us lived Her fame from... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pages
...bridge Crowned with the minster-towers. The fields between Are dewy-fresh, browsed by deep-uddered kine, And all about the large lime feathers low, The lime a summer home of murmurous wings. In that still place she, hoarded in herself, Grew, seldom seen : not less among us lived Her fame from... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...bridge Crown'd with the minster-towers. The fields between Are dewy-fresh, browsed by deep-udder'd kine, And all about the large lime feathers low, The lime a summer home of murmurous wings. In that still place she, hoarded in herself, Grew, seldom seen: not less among us lived Her fame from... | |
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