Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping... Poems - Page 158by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| Peter Bayne - 1879 - 470 pages
...appropriateness. The Lotos -land is one in which everything proceeds languidly, pausingly, dreamily. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go. Whoever lias seen a stream in its midsummer slenderness of volume, falling down a front of rock divided... | |
| PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...appropriateness. The Lotos-land is one in which everything proceeds languidly, pausingly, dreamily. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go. Whoever has seen a stream in its midsummer slenderness of volume, falling down a front of rock divided... | |
| 1879 - 524 pages
...slender stream Along the ' ! i : i to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some Шеe a downward smoke. Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Boiling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming... | |
| Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 474 pages
...like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. n. 10 A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow 16 From the inner land : far off, three mountain- tops, III. The charmed sunset lingered low adown... | |
| Thomas Sedgwick Steele - 1880 - 154 pages
...the picture, and I was daily discovering new beauties of scenery little known to the outside world. " A land of streams ! Some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below." Through the long stretches of deep water of Chamberlin Lake we paddled, keeping time with our oars,... | |
| Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1880 - 588 pages
...scenery continued to increase in beauty, and the cascades were really splendid : " A land of streams I some, like a downward smoke. Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Boiling a slumbrous sheet of foam below." The river dashed... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall, and pause, and fall did seem. n. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land : far off, three mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flushed... | |
| Charles Henry Hanson, Homer - 1882 - 300 pages
...abundance. In his beautiful poem called the " Lotos-Eaters," Mr. Tennyson thus describes the country : — " A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land ; far off, three mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...deep quietude, the dreamy haze, the lulling spell, of the enchanted land, reflected in the verse: — 'A land of streams! Some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...shadows broke, Rolling a. slumbrous sheet of foam below. . . . There is sweet music here (hat softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-clews... | |
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