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 the... Poems - Page 84by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...wondrous mother-age ! Make me feel the wild pulsation that I felt before the strife, When I heard iny ht his home a cage. For my father was a soldier, and...tell of struggles fierce and wild ; And when he died, pui-ple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1995 - 244 pages
...future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; 120 Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies... | |
| Carl Dawson, John Pfordresher - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 482 pages
...culture kiss each other. Again, when our greatest living poet 'dips into the future,' what does he see? The heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales. Why, it might be the vision of a young general merchant. I doubt whether anything similar could... | |
| H. Craig Miner - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 334 pages
...book, Lougheed quoted these lines from Alfred Lord Tennyson's 1842 prophetic poem "Locksley Hall": "the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, / Pilots of the purpose twilight, dropping down with costly bales. "2^ This was an indication that he understood the... | |
| Richard Earl Hansen - 1996 - 481 pages
...eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens full with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies... | |
| Michael F. Flynn, Michael Flynn - Fiction - 1997 - 910 pages
...eye could see. Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonders that would be; Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails; Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bails. ' ' ' Valery said, "Hah! But Aurora is the goddess of the dawn. Do you think Chairman van Huyten... | |
| Edith Wyschogrod - History - 1998 - 305 pages
...and teleology of nature to which I shall now turn. Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonders that would be, Saw the heavens fill with commerce,...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales, Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew For the nation's airy navies... | |
| Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn - Antichrist - 1998 - 220 pages
...members of the CFR 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, Pilot of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales. Hear the heavens fill with shouting... | |
| 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... | |
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