 Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. ' Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me.  The Princess: A Medley - Page 123by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1890 - 190 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...walk ; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font : The fire-fly wakens : waken thou with me !] " Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And...ghost she glimmers on to me. " Now lies the Earth all Danaii to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. " Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves... | |
 | 1915 - 862 pages
...provided us with a new sense of appreciation. i will make this clearer by one or two quotations : — Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake; Aud by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. Now, these three lines arrest our attention... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...the porphyry font : The fire-fly wakens ; waken thou with me. Now droops the milk-white peacock liko a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now...silent meteor on and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughtin me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake, So fold... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 604 pages
...porphyry font: The fire-fly wakens : waken thou with me ! " ' Now droops the milkwhite peacock ¡ike a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. " ' Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. " ' Now slides the silent meteor on, and... | |
 | 1848 - 708 pages
...the porphyry font: The fire-fly wakens ; waken thou with me. Now droops the milk-white peacock like ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on and leaves... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1856 - 512 pages
...one hand grasped The mild bull's golden horn." In his Princess there is this allusion to Danae : — "Now lies the earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me." Niobe. NIOBE. The fate of Arachne was noised abroad through all the country, and served as a warning... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 pages
...river floating, She floats upou the river of his thoughts." Spanish Student, Act 2, Sc. 3. [Tennyson.] "Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake." Princess, pt. 7. There is a resemblance in the following lines from Wordsworth and Keble. " A book,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 pages
...floating, She floats upon the river of his thoughts." Spanish Student, Jlct 2, Sc. 3. [Tennyson.] " Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake." Princess, pt. 7. There is a resemblance in the following lines from Wordsworth and Keble. " A book,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 pages
...river floating, She floats upon the river of his thoughts." Spanish Student, Act 2, Sc. 3. [Tennyson.] "Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake." Princess, pt. 7. There is a resemblance in the following lines from Wordsworth and Keble. "A book,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 378 pages
...river floating, She floats upon the river of his thoughts." Spanish Student, Act 2, Sc. 3. [Tennyson.} "Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of th» lake." Princess, pt. 7. There is a resemblance in the following lines from Wordsworth and Keble.... | |
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