 For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard...  The Quarterly Review - Page 410edited by - 1842Full view - About this book
 | 1879 - 1036 pages
..." the heavens fill with commerce," but after a few destructive experiments there will rain no " — ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue." Troops, aerial squadrons, death-dealing armaments will be maintained only for police surveillance over... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of...standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm ; Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man,... | |
 | 1871 - 476 pages
...eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of...bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide... | |
 | Richard Henry Horne - 1871 - 44 pages
...being realised in the terrible Franco-Prussian war, — that vision wherein he ' Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of...; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there raiu'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.' But Mr. Home's poem... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill .B. Ford and Company rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; .Far along the world-wide... | |
 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - 1918 - 638 pages
...eyes could see, Saw the vision of the world and all the wonders that would be, Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of...dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens filled with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew, From the nation's airy navies, grappling in the... | |
 | Acrostics - 1871 - 312 pages
...That which combined us was most great, and let not A leaner action rend us." 7. " Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of...purple twilight dropping down with costly bales." 8. ; " Fly, Like spirits of the spot, as 'twere for fame, For still they soared unutterably high."... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...eyo could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill de 1. rained a ghastly dew From the nations1 airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1874 - 706 pages
...of the barbarians in exchange for their silks and velvets. As they stood upon the shore seeing the "Argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales," they calculated their profits and bargains in pieces of money that bore the same mark as our symbol... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...the future, far as tinman eye could see, Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic Balls, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens flll with shouting, and there raiu'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling ¡n the central... | |
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