...exercise my trade, And he the only person that's allow'd To sell black puddings at the city-gates." Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height, To hear each other's whisper'd ipeech, Eating the lotos day by day ; To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender...

...grave In silence, ripen, fall and cease. Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease ! 6. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, To hear each other's whisper'd speech ; Eating the Lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples...

...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...Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height; Eating the Lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the heach, And tender curving lines...

...frightfully common that no sense remains. I sometimes wish we were all a little more given to dreaming. '' How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ; ****** How sweet (while warm airs lull us, blowing lowly) With half-dropt eyelids still, Beneath...

...Simplicis haec durant casta oblectamina vitae, Et teneor magno vallis amore meae. HD '¿otos eaters. How sweet it 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;...

...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...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...

...has charmingly expressed the dreamy, languid feeling which the lotus-food is said to have produced. " How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream With...leave the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each others' whispered speech ; Eating the Lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach,...

...grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease : Q-ive us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. & How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...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...

...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...eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream." Dismissing these two poems, the earlier of Tennyson's experiments upon classical myths, let us look...

...lines: or, ' They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Betieeen the sun ami moon upon the shore;' ' To dream and dream like yonder amber light. Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height!' Besides the mere charms of verge, there is throughout the poem a fine spirit of human reflection. The...