 For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the" world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard...  Poems - Page 44by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1878 - 688 pages
...they shall do : For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens...; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1879 - 236 pages
...they shall do : For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens...; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens till with commerce, argosies of magic sails ; Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly hales ; Heard the heavens flll with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy... | |
 | Peter Clark, David Michael Palliser, Martin J. Daunton - History - 2000 - 980 pages
...end of the scale, did the Tennysons of Grimsby and Hull, whose best-known son 'Saw the heavens f1lled with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales.'69 Costly bales produced a standard of living that many envied: 'with the splendour of the best... | |
 | John W. Wohlfarth - Religion and politics - 2001 - 409 pages
...state of mind. For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens...dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far long the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of... | |
 | Michèle Barrett, Duncan Barrett - Outer space - 2001 - 268 pages
...B'Elanna Torres For I dipt in to the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be: Saw the heavens...argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, drooping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew... | |
 | Birch Matthews - Aeronautics - 2001 - 204 pages
...'— ' .^^^^ For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Piloti of the purple twilight, dropping down with coitly bales . . . Alfred, Lord Tennyson " Tht Day... | |
 | Muriel Whitaker - Fiction - 2001 - 300 pages
...Then, flying, which was in its infancy in 1914-18, some twenty years later bore out Tennyson's vision, "and there rained a ghastly dew from the nations' airy navies grappling in the central flue": cities and civilians were bombed, without anv mercv or restraint. Another distinguishing... | |
 | Peter Stursberg - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 244 pages
...Locksley Hall: For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see. Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens...dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ... That was the passage that he let all the stops out of his vocal organ; the following... | |
 | James Charlton - Reference - 2002 - 204 pages
...BACON, ca. 1280 For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens...bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew, From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON,... | |
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