 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 - 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...Ulysses, i Masson's British Novelists. who, feeding upon the lotos, murmur, in luxuriant sleepiness: How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half dream. It is never the nature of this species of composition, considered in itself, but the faulty... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...the vehicles of knowledge. who, feeding upon the lotos, murmur, in luxuriant sleepiness: How swept it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half dream. It is never the nature of this species of composition, considered in itself, but the faulty... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 pages
...Ulysses, 1 Masson's British Novelists. who, feeding upon the lotos, murmur, in luxuriant sleepiness: How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Fulling asleep in a half dream. It is never the nature of this species of composition, considered in... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 526 pages
...grave la silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long restordeath.dark death or dreamful ease. pass ; How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Filling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...British NmelMx. who, feeding upon the lotos, murmur, in luxuriant sleepiness: How sweet it were, hearin g the downward stream. With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half dream. It is never the nature of this species of composition, considered in itself, but the faulty... | |
 | George Boyle - 1886 - 318 pages
...dark-blue sky Vaulted o'er the dark-blue sea. Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labour be? 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 Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 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 ; Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 566 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1887 - 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... | |
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