 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1869 - 968 pages
...lotus-eaters : "Wherein it eeemed alway afternoon." It was little wonder that the tired mariners sat down upon the yellow sand, between the sun and moon, upon the shore, and matured their lazy scheme of conjugal desertion. Who wonld willingly leave such blessed isles? They... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1869 - 756 pages
...in his cars his beating heart did make. v. They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the snn and moon, upon the shore; And sweet it was to dream of Father-land, Of child and wife and slave ; but evermore Most weary seemed the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 208 pages
...ut clauso vox missa sepulchro ; Ut somno gravis ipse, vigil tamen; imaque corda Dant numeros pulsu. They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the...the shore And sweet it was to dream of Father-land, Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make. They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the...the shore ; And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland, Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering... | |
 | 1871 - 476 pages
...grave ; And deep asleep he seemed, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make. v. They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the...shore ; And sweet it was to dream of Father-land, Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore Most weary seemed the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering... | |
 | S. S. Pugh - 1872 - 336 pages
...land and rest on the green turf and under the shady woods, or wander by the pleasant shore?" So— " They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the...the shore ; And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland, Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore Most weary seemed the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering... | |
 | 1875 - 854 pages
...yield to the spell, and become as Tennyson's lotoseaters : " They sat them down upon the yellow Band, Between the sun and moon upon the shore ; And sweet It was to dream of Fatherland, . . . . ; but evermore Moat weary seemed the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering fields of barren... | |
 | 1873 - 800 pages
...long for mere rest, for that "land In which it seemed always afternoon f " Do we desire to sit us " down upon the yellow sand Between the sun and moon upon the shore," and sing with the lotus-eaters : "All things have rest ; why should we toil alone. Nor steep our brows... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...music in his ears his beating heart did make. They pat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the snu and moon upon the shore; And sweet It was to dream of Fatherland, Of child, aud wife, and slave: but evermore Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering... | |
 | S S. Pugh - 1873 - 280 pages
...land and rest on the green turf and under the shady woods, or wander by the pleasant shore?" So— " They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the...the shore ; And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland, Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore Most weary seemed the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering... | |
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We will return no more ;" And all at once they sang, " Our island home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam. 
