 COURAGE!' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a...  Recollections of a Busy Life - Page 357by Horace Greeley - 1868 - 624 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton, William Ewart Gladstone - 1863 - 224 pages
...mountain wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid...moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along>the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, in which it seeme'd always afternoon. All round the coast the languid...along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; and... | |
 | Samuel Coffin Eastman - 1864 - 272 pages
...glistening in the sunshine, and assuming each moment some new phase of wonderful and varied beauty, where " Like a downward smoke, the slender stream. Along the cliff to fall, and pause, and fall doth seem." Far above, tower those more noted and eagerly welcomed peaks, which envious hills and forests... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 398 pages
...mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.* In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. AH round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And... | |
 | Albert Smith Bickmore - 1868 - 636 pages
...In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon ; At noon the coast with languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath...the cliff to fall, and pause, and fall, did seem. January 1, 1866. — Walked with the controleur and chief through the village, and saw the mode of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 402 pages
...came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoou. Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1868 - 692 pages
...like the lotus-eaters, and feel that — " In the afternoon we come unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon, All round the coast the languid...swoon; Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. A land where all thinga always seemed the same." Could the wily Ulysses have ever visited Sark ? The... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1868 - 388 pages
...would be a formidable task, for there is hardly a valley in many districts, of which we may not say like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem, A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, * Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1869 - 756 pages
...mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon, they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All 'round the coast, the languid...fall did seem. ii. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping vails of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some through wav'ring lights and... | |
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