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 the... Poems - Page 84by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845Full view - About this book
| 1859 - 558 pages
...costly treasure — amethyst and topaz pale. Many n reader will at once recal Tennyson's stanza — Saw the heavens fill with commerce — argosies of...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales. Again, it is impossible for any one familiar with Coleridge to read "Endymion" and not be reminded... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1860 - 404 pages
...sadness ? I will turn that earlier page. Hide me from my deep emotion, 0 thou wondrous Mother-Age ! Make me feel the wild pulsation that I felt before...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew From the nations' airy... | |
| Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1864 - 554 pages
...evidently borrowed their ideas of balloons from Tennyson's somewhat vague prophecy, where he says : For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew, From the nation's airy... | |
| Paul Hamilton Payne - 1860 - 614 pages
...immediately suggests the prophecy of Amy's lover, who, in a vision of future triumphs and possibilities, "Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales. " Here is one instance, among innumerable others, of a direct appropriation of thought and imagery,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...heels. Can I but relive in sadness ? I will turn that earlier pageHide me from my deep emotion, oh thou wondrous Mother- Age ! Make me feel the wild...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy... | |
| 1862 - 648 pages
...daring. If we compare the Roman lyrist with our own Laureate, we find the latter inventing a hero who " Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1862 - 778 pages
...material obstacles, which a great poet of past days, in the strength of his poetic foresight, beheld — ' Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;' for surely if we are proud of fathoming the depths of the upper air, of having reduced to an... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 pages
...sadness? I will turn that earlier page. Hide me from my deep emotion, oh thou wondrous Mother-Age ! Make me feel the wild pulsation that I felt before...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy... | |
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