He heard the deep behind him, and a cry Before. His own thought drove him 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 His feet on juts of slippery... Stepping Stones to Literature - Page 113by Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1898 - 317 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...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—...with stately forms Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream—by these Three Queens with crowns of gold—and from them rose A cry that shiver'd to the tingling... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 pages
...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...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
...left and right The bare black cliff clanged round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels...like a dream — by these Three Queens with crowns of gold—and from them rose A cry that shivered to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 522 pages
...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...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... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...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—...with stately forms Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream—by these Three Queens with crowns of gold—and from them rose A cry that shiver'd to the tingling... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...resembling, in my halls A young .(Eneas play'd, not wholly then Should I appear deserted and forlorn. 455. Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as...ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stol'd, black-hooded, like a dream. By these Three Queens with crowns of gold : and from them... | |
| David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...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 level lake, and tho long glories of the winter moon. Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, dark as a funeral... | |
| 1857 - 526 pages
...wende a lytell Nownde Into the vale of Aveloune A whyle to hele me of my wounde." " — The Romance. " Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as...ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Blackhooded like a dream— by these Three queens with crowns of gold — But she that rose the tallest... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1858 - 402 pages
...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...Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream — by these i Three Queens with crowns of gold — and from them rose •A cry that shiver' d to the tingling stars,... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 pages
...and right Ml 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...barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Heneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled,... | |
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