 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 - 1882 - 656 pages
...silence ; ripen, fall and cease : (rive us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. v. l low sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut...in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder umber Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whisper' d speech ;... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...the grave, In silence ripen, fall, and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful T. 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...grave In silence; ripen, fall, and cease: Give ue 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 ! . . . To hear each other's whispered speech; Eating the lotus day by day, To watch the... | |
 | Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour (Great Britain) - 1883 - 218 pages
...we do him wrong To sing so wildly — let us go." 83. THE LOTUS EATERS. Charles J. Staniland, M. " 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." — TENNYSON. 84. COMPANIONS OF MY SOLITUDE.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1883 - 740 pages
...silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, A or dreamful ease. 5How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream I To dream an<J dream, like yonder amber light, [the height ; Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1884 - 136 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1884 - 340 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...the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whisper'd speech ; To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 302 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... | |
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