 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 veils...  Poems - Side 175af Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 231 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 sider
...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 veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a. slumbrous sheet of foam below. . . . There is... | |
 | Charles Henry Hanson, Homer - 1882 - 300 sider
...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 veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 sider
...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 veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming... | |
 | Thomas Sedgwick Steele - 1882 - 174 sider
...daily discovering new beauties of scenery little known to the otitside world. " A land of streams I Some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below." Through the long... | |
 | John Bascom - 1882 - 322 sider
...[Milton.] 33. With eyes upraised, as one inspired, Pale Melancholy sat retired. — [Collins. ] 34. Some, like a downward smoke Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn did go. — [Tennyson. ] 35. . . . and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave. —... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 sider
...quietude, the dreamy haze, the lulling spell, of the enchanted land, reflected in the verse: — 'A laud of streams ! Some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. . . . There is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1884 - 136 sider
...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...mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset - flush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 412 sider
...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the clifi* to fall and pause nnd full did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolliug a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From thejnner land:... | |
 | William Powell James - 1884 - 216 sider
...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 through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumberous sheet of foam below. Again, we have... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 302 sider
...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...mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset -flush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. The... | |
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