 In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And, like a downward smoke, the slender...  The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate - Page 54by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 898 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1903 - 644 pages
...the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, 10 Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And...From the inner land : far off, three mountain-tops, 15 Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Burt - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1904 - 396 pages
...back by the spirit of self-indulgence." These were the points we discussed. Alfred Tennyson (1800-02). "COURAGE !" he said, and pointed toward the land,...mountaintops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flush'd: and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. The... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 942 pages
...like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And, like a down ward Curtis Hi suiiset-flush'd ; and, dew'd witli showery drops, Up-cloinb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 618 pages
...streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous...mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flushed: and, dewed with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. in.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...swoon, ,Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced' above the valley stood the moon; lAnd like a downward smoke, the slender stream {Along the...below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the/inner land : .far off, three mountain-tops, '' ' Stood sunset-flush'd : and, "deWfr with showery... | |
 | David Daiches - English literature - 1969 - 356 pages
...natural images to achieve a dream landscape is again characteristic. The details are often well observed: A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flush'd: . . . There are Keatsian echoes ("Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1995 - 244 pages
...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, 10 Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And...mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flush 'd: and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. The... | |
 | Philip Gaskell - Canon (Literature) - 1999 - 188 pages
...fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke 10 Slow -dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some thro' wavering...From the inner land: far off, three mountain-tops, 15 Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flush 'd: and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb... | |
 | Gerhard Joseph - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 300 pages
...streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous...mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flushed: and, dewed with showery drops. Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. (11.... | |
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