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" Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time... "
The talking oak - Page 35
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 14

William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1847 - 892 pages
...season of absence, returns to the scene of his early education and hapless love, where of yore he " Wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long remit of tune." A feeling, cognate with, and yet more imperious than those his high aspirations, springs...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 33

Unitarianism - 1843 - 418 pages
...shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of...the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the present for the promise that it closed: When I dipt into the future far as...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 33

Theology - 1843 - 424 pages
...Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies...tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time ;...
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Poems, Volume 2

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies...tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time;...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 11

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...season of absence, returns to the scene of his early education and hapless love, where of yore he " Wandered, nourishing a youth sublime "With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of time." A feeling, cognate with, and yet more imperious than those his high aspirations, springs up in his...
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The Living Age, Volume 199

1893 - 840 pages
...Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, •Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. The image of the fire-flies in the last of these lines, recalling that of the " bee-like swarms " in...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the west. Many a night I eaw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter...tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time ;...
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An Improved Grammar of the English Language, on the Inductive System: With ...

Bradford Frazee - English language - 1845 - 214 pages
...of mdtion ; we — Let us swear an oath, and keep it, with an equal mind — ax X 8, or ax X 8 —. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth...sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long results of Time ; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed ; When I clung to all the...
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A biographical history of philosophy, Volume 1

George Henry Lewes - Philosophers - 1845 - 258 pages
...of water ? Had he not from boyhood upwards been familiar with the sea ? " There about the beach he wandered nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy...tales of science, and the long result of time." When gazing abroad upon the blue expanse, hearing " the mighty waters rolling evermore," and seeing the...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. t Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and...
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