 Came on the shining levels of the lake. There drew he forth the brand Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with...  The works of Tennyson. Sch. ed - Page 69by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt: For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And, sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 pages
...forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest...the swift mind, In act to throw : but at the last it seem'J Better to leave Excalibur conceal 'd There in the many-knotted waterflags, That whistled stiff... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...if not unintelligible to tbe uninitiated, as when he says that Sir Bedivere stood with Excalibur, l; This way and that dividing the swift mind In act to throw ;" which reads very stiff till you recollect the Homeric PETERS. I would go further yet, and say that... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 276 pages
...Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt: For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 404 pages
...forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : Tor all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest...dividing the swift mind, In act to throw : but at the hist it seem'd Better to leave Excalibur conceal'd There in the many-knotted waterflags, That whistled... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pages
...Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1898 - 248 pages
...Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth, And sparkled keen with frost against the hill ; For all the haft twinkled with diamond sparks, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth work Of subtlest jewellery. So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur: But ere he dipt the surface,... | |
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