 | 1908 - 868 pages
...valley of Avelon" "Where falls not hail or rain or any snow" "Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it is" "Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard lawns" "And bowery hollows crowned with summer sea" (Tennyson). Here is King Aruthur's country and the heart of it, and here upon this hill was found his... | |
 | Roger Sherman Loomis - 1991 - 316 pages
...Bedivere: 'I am going a long way . . . To the island valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies...summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.' XVI The End of the Quest WHAT, then, after this critical examination of the literature of the Grail... | |
 | Julia Leslie - 1996 - 204 pages
...long way With these thou seest . . . To the island valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard-lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.... | |
 | John Buchan - 1998 - 276 pages
...Arthur', part of the much longer work, The Idylls of the King (1869). Avilion is described as a paradise: Where falls not rain, or hail, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly, but it lies Deep meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea' (v. 32, 1L... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1995 - 866 pages
...bids farewefl: I am going a long way To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, N'or ever wind blows loudly: but it lies Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard-lawns. (lines 255, 259-62) The 12th-century writer Geoffrey of Monmouth described Avalon as... | |
 | David Nevin - 2004 - 358 pages
...Arthur at last on the mystical Isle of Aval on where — I always read this with such pleasure — 'falls not rain, or hail, or any snow, nor ever wind blows loudly ..." ily in his mouth, inhaling its fragrance. This westward thrust was universal he said in a moment,... | |
 | Peter H. Spectre - 2005 - 308 pages
...time to go ... lam going a long way To the island valley ofAvilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies...happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown 'd with summer sea. —from "The Passing of Arthur," by Alfred Lord Tennyson "L'Envoi" by Rudyard... | |
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But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seest — if indeed I go — (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadowed,... 
