To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave 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 curving lines of creamy spray; To... The Nineteenth Century - Page 691882Full view - About this book
| Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...Simplicis haec durant casta oblectamina vitoe, Et teneor magno vallis amore ςεγε. HD THE LOTOS EATERS. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh bush on the... | |
| 1842 - 416 pages
...worth living for, to " Have rest, and ripen towards the grave In silence, ripen, fall, and cease." " How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream, and dream, like yonder amoer light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 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 half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
| 1910 - 848 pages
...mark an expression of awful melancholy in that still face of bronze? THB DISCONTKNTBD ENST.ISHMAK. "How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep In a half-dream." The I/otos-Eaterg. There Is a saying on the Outskirts anent the first public works... | |
| 1865 - 838 pages
...the hollow lotus-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like gods together, careless of mankind." "How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! " But in the north life is full of energy and vigorous action while daylight lasts. Who... | |
| 1910 - 862 pages
...to mark an expression of awful melancholy in that still face of brouze? THE DISCONTBNTED KNOUSHMAN. "How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream." The Lotos-Eaters. There is a saying on the Outskirts anent the first public works... | |
| 1845 - 608 pages
... 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...to seem Falling asleep in a half dream ! To dream a dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height; To hear each other's... | |
| 1845 - 682 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 half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, " People. And what punishment Will you inflict... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 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 half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
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