 Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time; When the centuries behind...  The Popular Science Monthly - Page 2631893Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. . Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the... | |
 | 1843 - 424 pages
...Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the... | |
 | 1893 - 840 pages
...Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, •Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. The image of the fire-flies in the last of these lines, recalling that of the " bee-like swarms " in... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the west. Many a night I eaw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter...like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. t Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went...like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 pages
...Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 pages
...the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the...like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 pages
...the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the...like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the... | |
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