 But the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies, Where the lean black craft like flies Seem well-nigh stagnated, Soon to drop off dead. Seemed it so to us When I was thine and thou wast mine, And all these things were thus, But all our world...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 5831896Full view - About this book
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1886 - 626 pages
...Very like indeed : Sea and sky, afar, on high, Sand and strewn seaweed, — Very like indeed. But the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies,...flies Seem well-nigh stagnated, Soon to drop off dead. Seemed it so to us When I was thine and thou wast mine, And all these things were thus, But all our... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1887 - 338 pages
...Very like indeed: Sea and sky, afar, on high, Sand and stre'vr. seaweed, — Very like indeed. But the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies,...flies Seem well-nigh stagnated, Soon to drop off dead. Seemed it so to us When I was thine and thou wast mine. And all these things were thus, But all our... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Architecture - 1890 - 252 pages
...stanza such as this, which seems scratched with an adamantine pen upon a slab of agate — But the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies,...flies, Seem wellnigh stagnated, Soon to drop off dead. Though the foregoing strictures apply to a large portion of Rossetti's work, there is a really precious... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti - 1890 - 584 pages
...like indeed : Sea and sky, afar, on high, Sand and strewn seaweed, — , Very like indeed. But the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies, Where the lean black craft like flics Seem well-nigh stagnated, Soon to drop off dead. Seemed it so to us When I was thine and thou... | |
 | American poetry - 1893 - 472 pages
...Very like indeed: Sea and sky, afar, on high, Sand and strewn seaweed, — Very like indeed. But the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies,...flies Seem well-nigh stagnated, Soon to drop off dead. Seemed it so to us When I was thine and thou wast mine, And all these things were thus, But all our... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1893 - 430 pages
...Very like indeed : Sea and sky, afar, on high, Sand and strewn seaweed, — Very like indeed. But the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies, Where the lean black craft like flics Seem well-nigh stagnated, Soon to drop off dead. Seemed it so to us When I was thine and thou... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Artists - 1895 - 522 pages
...stanza such as this, which seems scratched with an adamantine pen upon a slab of agate — 'But the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies, Where the lean black craft, like flics, Seem wellnigh stagnated, Soon to drop off dead.' In much of his work there is a rich and obscure... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Artists - 1897 - 372 pages
...stanza such as this, which seems scratched with an adamantine pen upon a slab of agate:-- ' Hut the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies,...Hastings. Carlyle, in his third lecture on Heroes and HeroWorship, spoke of " that poor Sordello with the cotto aspetto, 'face baked,' referring to a celebrated... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Artists - 1897 - 382 pages
...stanza such as this, which seems scratched with an adamantine pen upon a slab of agate:— ' But the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies,...like flies, Seem well-nigh stagnated, Soon to drop o(T dead.' " This stanza of Even So finds its first sketch by no means a rough one— in Rossetti's... | |
 | May Hunt - 1898 - 460 pages
...In Even So the background is the sea,"Sea and sk>,afar, on high Sand and strewn sea -weed, But the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies, Where the lean black craft like flies Seem well nigh stagnated, Soon to drop off dead; • and looked at with eyes that have suffered disillusion... | |
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