 he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.  The Nineteenth Century - Page 7931889Full view - About this book
 | Henry Alford - 1841 - 272 pages
...pointed toward the land, ' This mountain wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full faced above the valley stood the moon ;* And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon....smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. ii. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 pages
...pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon....smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. n. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils... | |
 | 1850 - 676 pages
...beautifully illustrated in the following passage from the " Lotos- Eaters." " In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All...smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...beautifully illustrated in the following passage from the " Lotos-Eaters." " In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon, All...smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of... | |
 | 1871 - 878 pages
...painting his blue boy contrary to the received axioms of pictorial combinations. The lines describing the land " In which it seemed always afternoon — All...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream, Full faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke the slender stream Along the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon....smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. n. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils... | |
 | 1847 - 556 pages
...company. We are reminded of the fine passage in Tennyson's " Lotos Eaters :" " In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon ;...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream." " Every one," says our author, " seemed to be under the influence of some narcotic. Even the officers... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1851 - 110 pages
...pointed to the strand; 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon; All...smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall, and pause, and fall did seem." But all corporeal or physical auxiliaries ; darkness, or a soft subdued... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 pages
...pointed toward the land; " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon....smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. IT. A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils... | |
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