...'Courage!' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it...swoon, 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...

...new emperor of Ethiopia with the name of Haile Selassie. 19 COMING TO THE LAND OF THE LOTUS EATERS In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it...languid air did swoon Breathing like one that hath a wary dream... Lord Tennyson It was during the first years of the 20th century that my father, Vasilios...

..."Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. (11.1-9) Ulysses' brief dramatic monologue of nine words is the only counterpoint in the poem to the...

...track behind him over the silvered grass. 13 Hospitality In the afternoon they came unto a land hi which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Tennyson, The Lotus-Eaters 6 PM Page 71 Hospitality 71 left them, had gone among the trees. He had...

...land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon'. In the afternoon they came unto a land 119 In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. This tries rather too wilfully to create a mood of lethargy, all the way from the repetition of 'afternoon',...

...1861 was engaged in driving out the Confederates. 25. See Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lotos-Eaters": "In the afternoon they came unto a land / In which it seemed always afternoon." 26. From Edgar Allan Poe's "Ulalume" (1847). In this poem, the speaker and "Psyche, my Soul" roam through...

...languor' over the ship's company. We are reminded of the fine passage in Tennyson's 'Lotos Eaters': 'In the afternoon they came unto a land, / In which...swoon, / Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.' " In his attack on Omoo in the July 1847 Whig Review (a long review characterized by unintended revelation...