 Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whisper'd speech ; Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray ; To lend our hearts and spirits wholly To the...  Translations - Page 22by George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton, William Ewart Gladstone - 1863 - 205 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Fearing Gill - 1875 - 472 pages
...grave In silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream. With...the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whisper'd speech ; Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...strange. Sleep, full of rest from head to feet; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. TENNYSON: To J. S+ How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...the myrrh-bush on the height; To hear each other's whisper'd speech ; Eating the lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender-curving... | |
 | John Brougham, John Elderkin - 1875 - 502 pages
...In silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. 5How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut...the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whisper'd speech ; Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 pages
...ease ! v. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Failing asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like...the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whispered speech ; Eating the Lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...grave In silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. v. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dn-am and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1875 - 472 pages
...any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All day the wind breathes low with mellower tone. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream." Dismissing these two poems, the earlier of Tennyson's experiments upon classical myths, let us look... | |
 | Floral poesy - 1875 - 360 pages
...silently, Far more than words can tell thee, how I worship thee."---MooRE. • THE LOTUS. TENNYSON. | OW sweet it were, hearing the downward stream With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh bush on the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...In silence; ripen, fall and cease -. Give us long rest or death, dark death, or (dreamful ease. v. How sweet it were, hearing the downward (stream, With...the myrrh-bush on the (height; To hear each other's whisper'd speech ; Keating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on tht» beach, And... | |
 | 1876 - 508 pages
...grave, In silence ripen, fall, and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease ' V. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - 1877 - 240 pages
...present to his host. 4. All these, life's rambling journey done, Have found their home, the grave. 5. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With...half,shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half.dream ! €. The balmy moon of blessed Israel Floods all the deep.blue gloom with beams divine. 7. At one... | |
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