 There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music...  Poems - Page 150by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 526 pages
...shadowy granite, in a gleaming Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down "from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the lottg-Ieaved flowers weep, And from the craggy... | |
 | 1885 - 932 pages
...phrase, image, and measure ! But we need not quote the lovely choric song wherein occur the lines — " Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes," so entirely restful and happy in their simplicity. If Art would always blossom so, she might be forgiven... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pages
...THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night -dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite,...pass ; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are... | |
 | Roden Noel - 1886 - 378 pages
...phrase, image, and measure ! But we need not quote the lovely choric song wherein occur the lines — " Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes." 'so entirely restful and happy in their simplicity. If Art would always blossom so, she might be forgiven... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1886 - 386 pages
...There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite in a gleaming pass. — The Lotus Eaters : Tennyson. And here of weakness : So he with difficulty and labor hard Moved... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...beyond the wave ; we will no longer roam." CHORIC SONG i THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews...pass ; . Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are... | |
 | Virgil A. Anderson - 1977 - 494 pages
...portents for the soul— More packed with danger to the universe. EDWIN MARKHAM, 'The Man with the Hoe' Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy...the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy... | |
 | Ralph Tyler Flewelling - 1920 - 504 pages
...repeated assaults that the battered ear begins to yearn for a saving measure, suave and Lydian, — for "Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, than tired eyelids upon tired eyes." Lack of modulation, of repose to alternate with climax, seems to be the chief defect of this concentrated... | |
 | W. W. Robson, William Wallace Robson - 1984 - 288 pages
...onomatopoeia, the mysterious matching of sound to sense, is a more general quality of poetry. I would call Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes (from "The Lotos-Eaters') onomatopoeic, for it is the soothing effect of music, not the actual sound,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...ChTr; FiP; LiTB; NAEL-2; NoP; OAEL-2; OnMSP; PoEL5; TEP 84 There is sweet music here that softer falls th light wing against the ivory gate, (1. 22-25) AWP;...NAEL-2; NoP; OAEL-2; OBNC; OPOP The Haystack In the (1. 46-52) 85 Why are we weighed upon with heaviness. And utterly consumed with sharp distress, (1.... | |
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