A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land : far... Poems - Page 155by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845Full view - About this book
| English poetry - 1879 - 314 pages
...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall, and panse, and fall did seem. A land of 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 sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming... | |
| PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...appropriateness. The Lotos-land is one in which everything proceeds languidly, pausingly, dreamily. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go. Whoever has seen a stream in its midsummer slenderness of volume, falling down a front of rock divided... | |
| Peter Bayne - English literature - 1879 - 470 pages
...appropriateness. The Lotos -land is one in which everything proceeds languidly, pausingly, dreamily. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go. Whoever lias seen a stream in its midsummer slenderness of volume, falling down a front of rock divided... | |
| Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1880 - 588 pages
...scenery continued to increase in beauty, and the cascades were really splendid : " A land of streams I some, like a downward smoke. Slow-dropping veils of...And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Boiling a slumbrous sheet of foam below." The river dashed noisily through the centre of the gorge,... | |
| Thomas Sedgwick Steele - Maine - 1880 - 154 pages
...the picture, and I was daily discovering new beauties of scenery little known to the outside world. " A land of 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 sheet of foam below." Through the long... | |
| Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 474 pages
...like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. n. 10 A land of 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 sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1881 - 502 pages
...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...mountaintops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow. Stood sunset-flush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, The charmed sunset linger' d low adown In the red West... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...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... | |
| John Richard Blakiston - Geography - 1881 - 326 pages
...afternoon ; All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that had a troubled dream. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land ; far off three mountain tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flushed ; and, dewed with showery... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...TENNTSOS. - (Eaters, " COURAGE ! " he said, and pointed toward the land ; "This mounting wave shall roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came...Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming... | |
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