 | 1879 - 492 pages
...great sea, In silver-shining armour starry-clear ; And o'er his head the holy vessel hung . . . . . . and straight beyond the star I saw the spiritual city...And gateways in a glory like one pearl — No larger though the goal of all the saints — Strike from the sea." The Holy Grail. SEVEN years had gone by,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1911 - 870 pages
...sunny slopes of the sleeping hills, but the very home and goal of all ; — The spiritual city with all her spires And gateways, in a glory like one pearl, No larger, though the goal of all the saints. THE LOST IPHIGENIA.1 BY AGNES AND EGERTON CASTLE CHAPTER XIII. UP... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - Adventure stories, English - 1870 - 552 pages
...are pre-eminently poet's gems. From the time of Job to JT Tennyson's last poem, where he describes the spiritual city and •" all her spires and gateways in a glory like one pearl," these fair products of the deep have been used as emblem, metaphor, or simile. Amongst the Greeks,... | |
 | English literature - 1870 - 606 pages
...over his head : — ' Then in a moment when they blazed again Opening, I saw the least of little stars Down on the waste, and straight beyond the star I...all the saints — Strike from the sea ; and from tho star there shot A rose-red sparkle to tho city, and there Dwelt, and I knew it was the Holy Grail,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 266 pages
...had been withdrawn. Then in a moment when they blazed again Opening, I saw the least of little stars Down on the waste, and straight beyond the star I saw the spiritual city and ail her spires And gateways in a glory like one pearl, No larger, tho' the goal of all the saints,... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1870 - 686 pages
...the holy vessel hung Redder than ¡my rose, a joy to me, For now 1 kuevv the veil had been withdrawn. Straight beyond the star, I saw the spiritual city and all her s¡•iri's And gateways in a glory like one pearl — Xo larger, though, the goal of all ihe saints... | |
 | 1871 - 660 pages
...starry clear, And o'er his head the holy vessel hung Clothed in white samite, or a luminous cloud. — I saw the spiritual city and all her spires And gateways in a glory like one pearl —No larger, though the goal of all the saints— Strike from the sea, and from the star there shot A rose-red sparkle... | |
 | Emily Bowles - 1872 - 314 pages
...true. In turning from this deathbed of Marie Ayme'e, the well-beloved, we think of Galahad's crowning, And straight beyond the star I saw the spiritual city...her spires And gateways in a glory like one pearl ; and feel, with Sir Percivale, that returning ' across the ridge' to common life and every day characters... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 344 pages
...blazed again Opening, I saw the least of little stare Down on the waste, and straight beyond tbc na I saw the spiritual city and all her spires And gateways in a glory like one pearl, No larger, tho' the gual of all the - iiuu=. Strike from the sea ; and from the star there sha: A rose-red sparkle to the... | |
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Redder than any rose, a joy to me, For now I knew the veil had been withdrawn. Then in a moment when they blazed again Opening, I saw the least of little stars Down on the waste, and straight beyond the star I saw the spiritual city and all her spires... 
