THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang... The Works of Tennyson - Page xixby Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1913 - 1033 pagesFull view - About this book
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...Tune litus? tune litus? О voluptas! О qvies! Te fruor, natalis ora ; te saluto, patria. К. JEnone. There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys...flowers, and far below them roars The long brook falling through the cloven ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea. Behind the valley topmost Gargarus... | |
| 1895 - 588 pages
...attained perfection in this branch of his art than in the opening lines of the finished ' CEnone.' * There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys...flowers, and far below them roars The long brook, falling through the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea. Behind the valley topmost Gargarus... | |
| England - 1861 - 814 pages
...breaking through white mists, and capped with dark slate-coloured clouds. Like Tennyson's Ida, it was " Lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The...loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow ledges, midway down, Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook, falling... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...in his place, Grow, live, die looking on his face, Die, dying clasp'd in his embrace. CENONE. THEBE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys...clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea. Behind the valley topmost Gargarus Stands up and takes the morning : but in front The gorges, opening... | |
| England - 1842 - 538 pages
...has " look'd on Ida with a Trojan's eye." " There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the vallevs of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart...clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea. Behind the valley topmost Gargarus Stands up and takes the morning : but in front The gorges, opening... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...round him in his place, Grow, live, die looking on his face, Die, dying clasp'd in his embrace. CENONE. THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys...clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea. Behind the valley topmost Gargarus Stands up and takes the morning : but in front The gorges, opening... | |
| Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 358 pages
...delirium, which follows it. " There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian lulls. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts...clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea." If Alfred Tennyson became awake to the actual world in his second volume of 1832, his publication in... | |
| 1893 - 846 pages
...other : — There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapor slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps...clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea. Behind the valley topmost Gargarus Stands up and takes the morning : but in front The gorges, opening... | |
| Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 392 pages
...vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart (he glen, Puts forth an arm and creeps from pine to pine,...clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea." If Alfred Tennyson became awake to the actual world in his second volume of 1832, his publication in... | |
| Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 382 pages
...and is a fine prelude to love's delirium, which follows it. " There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Thau all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour...midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roan The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea." If Alfred... | |
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