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
| William Bentley Fowle - 1859 - 356 pages
...based His feet on juts of slippery crag, that rang, Sharp smitten with the dint of armed heels, Till, on a sudden, lo ! the level lake And the long glories...them, and descending they were 'ware That all the deck was dense with phantom forms. Then murmured Arthur, " Place me in the barge I" There like a shattered... | |
| William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 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." The two last lines place you on the very spot: you see it almost with your bodily eyes. And marvellous... | |
| 1860 - 568 pages
...probably, wben he penned it, had the following lines in Tennyson's ifortt d? Arthur floating in his mind: " Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them j and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stalely forms Black-stoled, black-hooded,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 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...ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stpled, black-hooded, like a dream— by these Three Queens with crowns of gold — and from... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1864 - 852 pages
...round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of annnd heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And...they were ware That all the decks were dense with statelv forms Black-sioled, black-hooded, like a dream — by these Three Qiieeni with crowns of gold... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...for Translation 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...level lake, and the long glories of the winter moon. 1257 Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, beneath... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1864 - 514 pages
...hove a dusky barge Dark as a funeral scarf from stern to stem, Beneath them ; and descending they werc ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms...Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream — by these Three queeus with crowns of gold. And from them rose A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 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...winter moon. Then saw they how there hove a dusky bargo, Dark as a funeral-scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 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...level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon. „ 15. Then saw they how there hove- a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 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...Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral-scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were... | |
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