| 1914 - 304 pages
...sadness. By and by The ruddy square of comfortable light, Far-blazing from the rear of Philip's house, Allured him, as the beacon-blaze allures The bird...strikes Against it, and beats out his weary life. For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, The latest * house to landward; but behind, With one small... | |
| Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - 1917 - 386 pages
...sadness. By and by The ruddy square of comfortable light, Far-blazing from the rear of Philip's house, Allured him, as the beacon-blaze allures The bird...strikes Against it, and beats out his weary life. For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, The latest house to landward ; but behind, With one small... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1920 - 1090 pages
...and by The ruddy square of comfortable light. Far-blazing from the rear of Philip's house, \Uureil city, where alone She murmur'd, ' Vain, in vain :...will not love me: how then? must I die?' Then as a For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, The latest house to landward; but behind, With one small... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1921 - 506 pages
...of comfortable light, Far-blazing from the rear of Philip's house, Allured him, as the beacon blaze allures The bird of passage, till he madly strikes Against it, and beats out his weary life. For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, The latest house to landward ; but behind, With one small... | |
| Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - 1924 - 624 pages
...By and by 88 89 The ruddy square of comfortable light, Far-blazing from the rear of Philip's house, Allured him, as the beacon-blaze allures The bird...strikes Against it, and beats out his weary life. For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, The latest house to landward ; but behind, With one small... | |
| Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 pages
...sadness. By and by The ruddy square of comfortable light, Far-blazing from the rear of Philip's house, Allured him, as the beacon-blaze allures The bird...strikes Against it, and beats out his weary life. 726 For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, The latest house to landward; but behind, With one... | |
| Arthur Landsborough Thomson - 1926 - 376 pages
...WHITE, Letter to Daines Barrington, 1771. CHAPTER VIII OBSERVATIONAL METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF MIGRATION "As the beacon-blaze allures The bird of passage,...strikes Against it, and beats out his weary life." TENNYSON, " Enoch Arden." Individual observations — In inland districts — In coastal districts... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1995 - 244 pages
...sadness. By and by The ruddy square of comfortable light, Far-blazing from the rear of Philips house. Allured him. as the beacon-blaze allures The bird...strikes Against it. and beats out his weary life. For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, The latest house to landward; but behind, With one small... | |
| 1879 - 484 pages
...sadness. By and by The ruddy square of comfortable light, Far-blazing from the rear of Philip's house, Allured him, as the beacon-blaze allures The bird...strikes Against it, and beats out his weary life. For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, The latest house to landward; but behind, With one small... | |
| 594 pages
...lure every year thousands of winged migrants to their doom, — in Tennyson's words The beacon's blaze allures The bird of passage till he madly strikes Against it, and beats out his weary life. The solitary beams seem to possess a fatal attraction for both birds and moths, especially on foggy nights... | |
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