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
| 1879 - 524 pages
...mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the af ternoon they came unto a land, ln which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Fnll-f aced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
| Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 pages
...us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. 5 All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing...the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. ii. 10 A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And... | |
| Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 474 pages
...us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. s All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. n. 10 A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 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... | |
| Sir Albert Hastings Markham - 1881 - 412 pages
...whilst streams of water, flashing and sparkling in the sunlight, coursed down the hills to the sea — "And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along...the cliff to fall, and pause, and fall did seem." To the north, however, all was different. No gentle murmurings of freshly formed rivulets fell peacefully... | |
| 1872 - 586 pages
...All things seemed to quiver and reel in the glaring heat of the sun ; it was a " lotos-eating " day. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Lulled by the drowsy peacefulness of everything about me, and the monotonous regularity of all the... | |
| John Richard Blakiston - 1881 - 326 pages
...which our poet-laureate thus writes : — ' In the afternoon they came unto a land Wherein it seemed always afternoon ; All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that had a troubled dream. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land ; far off three... | |
| F. T. Wilson - 1881 - 234 pages
...fortress, and are lounging away the hours while the busy waves are moaning and murmuring about them. "All round the coast the languid air did swoon, breathing like one who hath a weary dream." They are at peace with themselves and the world ; they have found a land of... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pages
...mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came nnto 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... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...mounting wave shall 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. n. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ;... | |
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