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 solid lands, Like clouds they shape... Science - Page 121edited by - 1892Full view - About this book
| Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society - 1891 - 586 pages
...within the coast line, are now far out at sea. There rolls the deep where grew the tree. • * * * • The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. The woods and higher ground were infested with wolves ; and the wild boar grovelled in the slimy margin... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891 - 300 pages
...changes hast thou seen 1 There where the long street roars, hatli been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true; For tho' my lips may breathe adieu,... | |
| Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club - 1892 - 412 pages
...physical changes which have taken place, the words of the Poet Laureate have come into my mind — " The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...lands Like clouds, they shape themselves and go." After lunch at the Bed Lion, Westbury, and the election of Dr Davis, of Cheltenham, and Mr FW Waller,... | |
| Cornelia A. H. Crosse - 1892 - 376 pages
...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...lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go." It is remarkable that Browning — though supreme in his adjustment of moral harmony, and profoundly... | |
| John White Chadwick - 1893 - 264 pages
...Jungfrau " ; so that there is not the least exaggeration in Tennyson's stanza where he sings : — ' ' The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go." Pass from the geological to the biological world, and we have the same substitution of a relative for... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893 - 294 pages
...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...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true; For tho' my lips may breathe adieu,... | |
| James Baldwin - 1893 - 312 pages
...out a rose. cxxlii. There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho' my lips may breathe... | |
| John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 384 pages
...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...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. Among Lord Tennyson's acquirements was a knowledge of astronomy. None but a " silent watcher of the... | |
| James Baldwin - 1893 - 312 pages
...breaks out a rose. cxxm. There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho' my lips may breathe... | |
| John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 408 pages
...lines on mutability — There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to...solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. Among Lord Tennyson's acquirements was a knowledge of astronomy. None but a " silent watcher of the... | |
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