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
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...doth tend. All gifts below, save Truth, but grow towards an end. LYRA APOSTOLICA 99 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... | |
| Acrostics - 1865 - 260 pages
...many gates as moons one year doth view — Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true.' 1. 'How sweet it were hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream !' 2. 'A Northern Rose, the sweeter For memories of the sea, And the stern winds that reared... | |
| Henry Drury - 1865 - 430 pages
...were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream I 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... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 398 pages
...grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful easel 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... | |
| Amanda M. Douglas - 1868 - 392 pages
...come such a warm, golden season to his life, or a face so tender and beautiful to smile up into his. " How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...Falling asleep in a half dream ! To dream and dream in yonder amher light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height, To hear each other's whispered... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 402 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... | |
| Henry Allon - 1851 - 604 pages
...and we only seem to feel — ' How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, "With eyes half shut, ever to seem Falling asleep in a half dream! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, That will not leave the myrrh bush on the height; » * * * To muse and brood, and live again in memory... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 456 pages
...climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence ; ripen, fall and cease : 5How 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... | |
| James Hutchison Stirling - 1868 - 286 pages
...lines : " They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the sun and moon upon the shore ;" or, " To dream and dream like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height !" Besides the mere charms of verse, there is throughout the poem a fine spirit... | |
| Roderick Noble - 1869 - 430 pages
...gentle current of our life-stream : How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes to seem Falling asleep in a half dream, To dream and dream — — The Cape gossips about changes. The Radical is here the Constitutionalist ; he sees perfection... | |
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