 To find him in the valley ; let the wild Lean-headed Eagles yelp alone, and leave The monstrous ledges there to slope, and spill Their thousand wreaths of dangling water-smoke, That like a broken purpose waste in air : So waste not thou ; but come ; for...  The Quarterly review - Page 4511848Full view - About this book
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...like a broken purpose, waste in air : So waste not thou, but come ; for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children...every sound is sweet : Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. TENNYSON.... | |
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...That like a broken purpose waste in air. So waste not thou ! but come ! for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children...immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees." ' So she, low-toned ; while with shut eyes I lay Listening ; then look'd. Pale was the perfect face... | |
 | 1881 - 622 pages
...That like a broken purpose waste in air. So waste not thou ; but come ; for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children...every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.' "We have... | |
 | 1893 - 840 pages
...most sheltered monastic retreat (celibacy not being imperative) might have charms of its own : — The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. It is only fair to add that the Old Man's familiarity with modern English literature was highly creditable.... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
..."the sound must seem an echo to the sense." Consider, for example, those lines in the "Princess:" — Sweeter thy voice: but every sound is sweet: Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. The Mission... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1848 - 1848 - 180 pages
...like a broken purpose waste in air : So waste not thou ; but come ; for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children...immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.' So she low-toned ; while with shut eyes I lay Listening ; then look'd. Pale was the perfect face ;... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1896 - 664 pages
...beauty of the line. Then the three lines, of which MR. YARDLEY •quotes two, in 'The Princess':— Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan...immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. Charles Kingsley praises these three lines highly, ая he well may. The island-valley of Avilion,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1850 - 604 pages
...That like a broken purpose waste in air. So waste not thou ! but come ! for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children...immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.' •' So she, low-toned ; while with shut eyes I lay Listening ; then look'd. Pale was the perfect face;... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...That like a broken purpose waste in air. So waste not thou ! but come ! for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children...immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.' " So she, low-toned ; while with shut eyes I lay Listening ; then look'd. Pale was the perfect face;... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...like a broken purpose, waste in air : So waste not thou, but come ; for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children...every sound is sweet : Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. TENNYSON.... | |
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