 | Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 392 pages
...are these coming So white through the gloom? What garments out-glistening ' The gold-flower'd broom? What sweet-breathing presence Out-perfumes the thyme?...fairest, But all are divine. They are lost in the hollows 1 They stream up again ! What seeks on this mountain The glorified train? — They bathe on this mountain,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1880 - 434 pages
...are these coming So white through the gloom ? What garments out-glistening The gold-flowered broom ? What sweet-breathing presence Out-perfumes the thyme ? What voices enrapture The night's balmy prime ?" Observe here the exquisitely classical English idiom " out-glistening " and " out-perfume," which... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 352 pages
...garments out-glistening The gold-flower'd broom 1 What sweet-breathing presence Out-perfumes the thyme 1 What voices enrapture The night's balmy prime ? —...! What seeks on this mountain The glorified train 1 — They bathe on this mountain, In the spring by their road ; Then on to Olympus, Their endless... | |
 | William Henry Thorne - 1886 - 194 pages
...bear." Because we have not been " born again." Here is a snatch of Mr. Arnold's " Hymn to Apollo" : " What sweet-breathing presence outperfumes the thyme?...Nine; the leader is fairest, but all are divine." And somebody has been unkind enough to hint that this is but a poor, school-boy, prosaic echo of a... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 394 pages
...are these coming So white through the gloom? What garments out-glistening The gold-flowered broom? What sweet-breathing presence Out-perfumes the thyme?...— They bathe on this mountain, In the spring by the road; Then on to Olympus, Their endless abode. — Whose praise do they mention? Of what is it... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 404 pages
...are these coming So white through the gloom? What garments out-glistening The gold-flowered broom? What sweet-breathing presence Out-perfumes the thyme?...— They bathe on this mountain, In the spring by the road; Then on to Olympus, Their endless abode. — Whose praise do they mention? Of what is it... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...are these coming So white through the gloom ? What garments out-glistening The gold-flower'd broom ? What sweet-breathing presence Out-perfumes the thyme?...comes leading His choir, the Nine. —The leader is lairest, But all arc divine. They are lost in the hollows ! They stream up again ! What seeks on this... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...are these comirg So white through the gloom? What garments out-glistening The gold-flower'd broom ? What sweet-breathing presence Out-perfumes the thyme?...comes leading His choir, the Nine. — The leader is iairest, But all are divine. They are lost in the hollows ! They stream up again ! What seeks on this... | |
 | 1895 - 734 pages
...are these coming So white through the gloom? What garments out-glistening The gold-flower' d broom? What sweet-breathing presence Out-perfumes the thyme? What voices enrapture The night's balmy prime? — 'Tls Apollo comes leading His choir, the Nine. — The leader is fairest, But all arc divine. They... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 194 pages
...are these coming So white through the gloom ? What garments out-glistening The gold-flower'd broom ? What sweet-breathing presence Out-perfumes the thyme...?— 'Tis Apollo comes leading His choir, the Nine. 30 — The leader is fairest, But all are divine. They are lost in the hollows ! They stream up again... | |
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Tis Apollo comes leading His choir, the Nine. — The leader is fairest, But all are divine. 
