To roll the torrent out of dusky doors : But follow; let the torrent dance thee down 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,... The Princess: A Medley - Page 153by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1848 - 164 pagesFull view - About this book
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...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...every sound is sweet : Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. TENNYSON.... | |
| 1881 - 622 pages
...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...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... | |
| 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... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...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...every sound is sweet : Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. TENNYSON.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 290 pages
...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...every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees." So she... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 300 pages
...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...every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees." So she... | |
| George William Curtis - Atlantic States - 1852 - 214 pages
...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...every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moau of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees." Remembering... | |
| George William Curtis - Atlantic States - 1852 - 216 pages
...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;...hearth Arise to thee; the children call, and I Thy shephev.l, pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...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...every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees." So she... | |
| George William Curtis - Atlantic States - 1854 - 222 pages
...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;...every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. Remembering... | |
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