 Fall, as the crest of some slow-arching wave Heard in dead night along that tableshore Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves Far over sands marbled with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing...  The Living Age - Page 421893Full view - About this book
 | 1897 - 590 pages
...Heard in dead night along that table-shore, Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves, Far over sands...with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing. Fitzgerald writes : " I used to say Alfred never should have left old Lincolnshire, where there were... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 588 pages
...Heard in dead night along that table-shore, Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves, Far over sands...with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing. Fitzgerald writes: "I used to say Alfred never should have left old Lincolnshire, where there were... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1897 - 326 pages
...Heard in dead night along that table-shore, Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves, Far over sands...with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing ; till his knights burst in and fire the demon castle, which, blazing highMade all above it, and a... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1897 - 526 pages
...sandy shallows ; and a less familiar passage from THE LAST TOURNAMENT, The great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves Far over sands marbled with moon cmd cloud From less and less to nothing. In the lavish abundance of English poetry from Coleridge to... | |
 | May Hunt - 1898 - 460 pages
...wave Heard in dead night along that table-shore Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league and thin themselves Far over sands...with moon and cloud From less and less to nothing." Akin to this is ""he long wash of Australasian seas" of the Brook and "the bague-long roller thundering... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 360 pages
...Heard in dead night along that table-shore, Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves, Far over sands...with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing. FitzGerald writes : " I used to say Alfred never should have left old Lincolnshire, where there were... | |
 | William John Clarke Miller - 1899 - 248 pages
...wave, Heard in dead night along that table-shore Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves Far over sands...with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing." We observe that he does not indulge in the usual generalities about emerald green billows, dark blue... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 320 pages
...Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves, life!' Far over sands marbled with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing; thus he fell Head -heavy ; then the knights, who watch'd him, roar'd And shouted and leapt down upon... | |
 | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - 1900 - 312 pages
...Heard in dead night along that table shore Drops flat ; and after, the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves, Far over sands...with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing." In " Maud " we find quite another beach and sea, — " The silent sapphire-spangled marriage ring of... | |
 | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - 1900 - 310 pages
...Heard in dead night along that table shore Drops flat ; and after, the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves, Far over sands...with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing." In " Maud " we find quite another beach and sea, — " The silent sapphire-spangled marriage ring of... | |
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