Now rings the woodland loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drown'd in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song. Now dance the lights on lawn and lea, The flocks are whiter down the vale, And milkier every milky sail On winding... In Memoriam - Page 178by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 126 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1880 - 1178 pages
...page of Western poet, there come to me dreams of distant haunts where, " Xow fiulps the last, loiiji streak of snow, Now burgeons every maze of quick About the flowering nquares, and thick By ¡ishen rools the violets blow ;" where, too, the rambler may receive the tremulous... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...Who grewest not alone in power And knowledge, but by year and hour In reverence and in charity. cxT. Now fades the last long streak of snow, Now burgeons...loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drown'd in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song. Now dance the lights on lawn and lea,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1881 - 502 pages
...by year and hour In reverence and in charity. Now fades the last long streak of snow, Now bourgeons every maze of quick About the flowering squares, and...loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drown'd in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song. Now dance the lights on lawn and lea,... | |
| Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 pages
...trembling hope repose, The bosom of his Father and his God. Thomas Gray. STANZAS FROM " IN MEMORIAM." Now fades the last long streak of snow, Now burgeons...squares, and thick By ashen roots the violets blow. Now rin^s the woodland loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drowned in yonder living blue... | |
| 1882 - 552 pages
...influenced by the seasons of the year at which the various parts that make up the poem were composed. " Now fades the last long streak of snow, Now burgeons...squares, — and thick By ashen roots the violets grow. " Now rings the woodlands loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drowned in yonder... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pages
...by year and hour In reverence and in charity. Now fades the last long streak of snow, Now bourgeons every maze of quick About the flowering squares, and...loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drown'd in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song. Now dance the lights on lawn and lea,... | |
| 1882 - 456 pages
...spring? Ay, where are they?" demanded Keats grandiloquently. Tennyson looked upon him reproachfully. " Now rings the woodland loud and long, the distance takes a lovelier hue, and drowned in yonder living blue the lark becomes a sightless song." " I heard a thousand blended notes... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...Si'»n of the fatal pestilence of Frost. A. . BAYAHD TAYLOR— The tioblier and i/te Pard. St. 38. grievous fault ; And grievously hath Ccesar answered it m. Julius Cci'sar. drowned in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song. I. TENNYSON — In Jtfemorlam. О... | |
| John Burroughs - 1884 - 346 pages
...as descriptive of parts of our season :— " Now fades the last long streak of snow, Now bourgeons every maze of quick About the flowering squares, and...loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drown'd in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song. Now dance the lights on lawn and lea,... | |
| Charles Witcomb - 1884 - 180 pages
...Melodious birds sing madrigals. The four-line stanza of iambic verses, rhyming thus : 1 — 4 2 — 3 Now rings the woodland loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drowned in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song. Now dance the lights on lawn and lea.... | |
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