 | 1871 - 776 pages
...peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ? " All day the wind breathes low with mellower tone. " How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream. With...eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream." Dismissing these two poems, the earlier of Tennyson's experiments upon classical myths, let us look... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pages
...lines: or, ' They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Betieeen the sun ami moon upon the shore;' ' To dream and dream like yonder amber light. Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height!' Besides the mere charms of verge, there is throughout the poem a fine spirit of human reflection. The... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease : Give us Ion" rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease T 5. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whispered speech ; Eating the Lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender-curving... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease ! 5. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whispered speech ; Eating the Lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, To lend... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease ! 5. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whispered speech ; Eating the Lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, A.nd tender-curving... | |
 | SMITH - 1862 - 924 pages
...music that gentlier on the lies than tired eyelids upon tired eyes." And ah ! — " How sweet it is, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes, ever to seem Falling asleep in a half dream ; To lend our hearts and spirits wholly To the influence of mild-minded melancholy." *****... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 pages
...grave, In silence ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease ! How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whispered speech ; Eating the Lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender... | |
 | George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton, William Ewart Gladstone - 1863 - 224 pages
...ewrep^o/tei/a? fioipa KaQ &pav' ra? TTOuXvrrXaz'wz' ovelpcav, rj davdrov TV CTTp. avTitrrp. Soph. 4n% 781—800. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whisper' d speech ; Eating the Lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender... | |
 | 1863 - 224 pages
...dirf el<Tep%pfteva<; fj.olpa Kad wpav TO? Trov\VTT\dvwv ovelpwv, fj davdrov Soph. Antij. 781—800. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whisper' d speech ; Eating the Lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender... | |
 | 1863 - 478 pages
...grave ; And deep-asleep he seemed, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make. " How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To hear each other's whispered speech ; Eating the Lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on... | |
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To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height; To hear each other's whispered speech; Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray; To... 
