 | James Thomson - Poets, English - 1868 - 416 pages
...A sable, silent, solemn forest stood ; Where naught but shadowy forms were seen to move, As Idless fancied in her dreaming mood : And up the hills, on...murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. TL A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was ; Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...style of Spenser, the very words of which seem to lull you to repose. " A pleasing hmd of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, % Forever flushing ronnd a summer sky ; There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1870 - 236 pages
...shadowy forms were seen to move, As Idlesse fancied in her dreaming mood, 216 THE CASTLE OF JNflOLE.VCE. And up the hills, on either side, a wood Of blackening...sleepy horror through the blood ; And where this valley wended out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard to flow. THOMSON. CHRONOLOGICAL... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1920 - 890 pages
...even the worthy Homer nods ? Is not Shakspere allowed his forty winks? A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round the summer sky. No, if one has a bit of writing to put out of the way, it is... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1871 - 564 pages
...above, A sable, silent, solemn forest stood, Where nought but shadowy forms was seen to move, As Idlesse fancied in her dreaming mood ; And up the hills, on either side, a wood Of blackening piius, aye waving to and fro, Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood ; And where this valley... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1872 - 820 pages
...sable, silent, solemn forest stood ; Where nought but shadowing forms were seen to move, As idless fancied in her dreaming mood ; And up the hills on...fro Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood." This forest coating is broken by a precipitous gulf on either side of the castle, which converts the... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...above, A sable, silent, solemn forest stood, Where nought but shadowy forms were seen to move, As Idless fancied in her dreaming mood ; And up the hills, on...murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. VI A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles... | |
 | James Thomson - 1873 - 758 pages
...A sable, silent, solemn forest stood ; Where naught but shadowy forms were seen to move, As Idless fancied in her dreaming mood : And up the hills, on...murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. VI. .A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was ; Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...above, A sable, silent, solemn forest stood, Where nought but shadowy forms was seen to move, As Idless2 fancied in her dreaming mood; And up the hills, on...murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. 6 A pleasing land of drowsyhead it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...solemn forest stood, Where naught but shadowy forms was seen to move, As Idlesse fancied in her dreamy mood : And up the hills, on either side, a wood Of...to and fro, Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blond ; And where this valley winded out below, The murmuring main wns heard, and scarcely heard, to... | |
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Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood; And where this valley winded out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye : And of gay castles in... 
