I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of... Poems - Page 89by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845Full view - About this book
| Literature - 1885 - 544 pages
...shall have scope and breathing-space ; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words...the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. /, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures,... | |
| William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...hair and hurl their lances in the sun ; Whistle back the parrot's call and leap the rainbows of the235 brooks, Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable...the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. 240 I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pages
...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun ; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,...Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words arc wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with narrow foreheads,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1887 - 508 pages
...and leap the rainbows of the brooks, Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books — Pool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are...the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. /, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures,... | |
| Religion - 1887 - 618 pages
...thoughts and fancies, to throw himself away in this manner, " is most tolerable, and not to be endured." 7 to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast of lower pleasures, like a beast of lower pains. Mated to a squalid savage, what to me were sun or... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1888 - 338 pages
...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun ; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,...books — • Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I knaw my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with... | |
| Phillip Rittenhause Clugston - 1927 - 638 pages
...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their Ignces in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,...with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books A manuscript stanza,oii£lnally coming after the first of the above, shows striking onomatopoeia: All... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1905 - 920 pages
...seem to have any fit companions around you." My answer was another verse, from "Locksley Hall"— ' " I to herd with narrow foreheads vacant of our glorious...with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! " "Why, that man," said he, "seems to be your favourite author." "Not mine only, but England's,"... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1854 - 1384 pages
...o^ne beren Ijofyen unb ber î^ter bcftnnt Г(ф аиф поф unb fuh.lt unfern etwanigen 9íaufф : Fool! again the dream the fancy! but I know my words are wild. @пЬ({ф bùd)t bn$ Sewuftfein bervor, bem 2luewanbercr fo пагйгНф: Better fifty years in Europe... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,...the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. /, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures,... | |
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