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" 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... "
Once a Week - Page 405
edited by - 1870
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The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Etc: Complete in Two ...

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling...central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm ; Till...
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The Congregational Review, Volume 1

1861 - 636 pages
...days before me, and the tumult of my life ; " Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling...central blue ; " Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm ; " Till...
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Temple Bar, Volume 1

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - 600 pages
...descrihes the efl'ect of a battle of balloons : " Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there raiti'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue." And it is rather curious that Lucian should have coincided with one of the freaks of nature in describing,...
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The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Etc: Two Volumes in One

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...twilight, dropping down with costly 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 whisper of the south- wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging through...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 75

1862 - 648 pages
...twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue." The dream is a sufficiently wild one. It may well be doubted whether balloons will carry costly bales...
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Poems: In Two Volumes, Volume 2

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 pages
...twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling...central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm ; Till...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1864 - 404 pages
...nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm ; Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battleflags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the...
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Chambers's readings in English poetry

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling...central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunderstorm ; Till the...
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The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson: Poet Laureate, Etc ..., Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 398 pages
...twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling...rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm ; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled...
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Poems of Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da...central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, • With the standards of the peoples plunging tlu-o' the thunder-storm ;...
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