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
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 494 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...half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream I To drwun and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height ;... | |
| London city of Lond. sch - 1877 - 340 pages
...or of any other, in his description of a land of dreams. " Do we not," he asks, " live in dreams ? " "How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half dream." There is that in the music of Mr. Tennyson's verse that has the effect of opium, or of... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...strange. Sleep, full of rest from head to feet; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. TENNYSON : To JS 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... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 262 pages
...ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease 1 How sweet it wore, hearing the downward stream With half-shut eyes ever...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-curving... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1879 - 236 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... | |
| 1879 - 524 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 wifl not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 430 pages
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| 1880 - 572 pages
...cried Nero ; " I am not equal to it. I think a single conundrum would crush me. Let us sit and dream. "How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seein Falling asleep in a half -dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - 1881 - 520 pages
...has charmingly expressed the dreamy languid feeling which the lotus-food is said to have produced : " How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream With...the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whispered speech ; Eating the Lotus, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1881 - 502 pages
...In silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. Hovr sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut...amber light. Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on th» height ; To hear each other's whisper'd speech ; Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping... | |
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