 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
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 pages
...Ulysses, 1 Masson's British Novelists. who, feeding upon the lotos, murmur, in luxuriant sleepiness: How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Fulling asleep in a half dream. It is never the nature of this species of composition, considered in... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pages
...grave In silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. v. 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... | |
 | George Boyle - 1886 - 318 pages
...dark-blue sky Vaulted o'er the dark-blue sea. Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labour be? 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... | |
 | 1887 - 654 pages
...down by the rippling brook and sing — How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half dream To...the height ; To hear each other's whispered speech ; Eating the lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach And tender curving lines... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1887 - 508 pages
...grave In silence ; ripen, fall and cease ; Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. v. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 566 pages
...any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ? All day the wind breathes low with mellower tone. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream." Dismissing these two poems, the earlier of Tennyson's experiments upon classical myths,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1888 - 336 pages
...In silence ; ripen, fall and cease : I Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. v. 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... | |
 | 1889 - 552 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, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1889 - 894 pages
...grave In silence ; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. V. 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... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 pages
...grave, In silence ripen, fall, and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease! T. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half dream I To iln-am and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height ;... | |
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