 | 1858 - 620 pages
...of dull stagnation' like China, but full of energy, and life, and hope: ' A still salt pool locked in with bars of sand, Left on the shore, that hears all night The plunging waves draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white,' save that India, locked in by the Indus... | |
 | 1858 - 438 pages
...of dull stagnation' like China, but full of energy, and life, and hope : ' A still salt pool locked in with bars of sand, Left on the shore, that hears all night The plunging waves draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white,' save that India, locked in by the Indus... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 pages
...Or power of movement, seem'd my soul, Mid onward-sloping motions infinite Making for one sure goal. A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand ; Left...backward from the land Their moon-led waters white. A star that with the choral starry dance Join'd not, but stood, and standing saw The hollow orb of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - 1843 - 564 pages
...there are many, painted with as few strokes and with as complete a success? " A still salt pool, locked in with bars of sand ; Left on the shore ; that hears...backward from the land Their moon-led waters white." Tennyson delights in a garden. Its groups, and walks, and mingled bloom intoxicate him, and us through... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - 1843 - 560 pages
...there are many, painted with as few strokes and with as complete a success? " A still salt pool, locked in with bars of sand ; Left on the shore; that hears...The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moonOled waters white." Tennyson delights in a garden. Its groups, and walks, and mingled bloom intoxicate... | |
 | 1844 - 671 pages
...departing strength, and the retributive ruin that is seizing upon it, is magnificent. She felt like « A still, salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand Left on the shore that hears all night The plunsing seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white." Again, a terrible truth, most... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 584 pages
...unites these excellences. " A still, salt pool, locked in with bars of sand, Left on the shore ; which hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters while." PHILIP. That is one of the most perfect images in any language, and as a picture of a soul... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...Or power of movement, seem'd my soul, Mid onward-sloping motions infinite Making for one sure goal. A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand ; Left...backward from the land Their moon-led waters white. A star that with the choral starry dance Join'd not, but stood, and standing saw The hollow orb of... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pages
...endless plain, The ragged rims of thunder brooding low, With shadow streaks of rain." * * * • * " A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left...all night The plunging seas draw backward from the ¡and Their moon-led waters white." ***** " As in strange lands a traveler walking slow, In doubt and... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...upon an endless plain, The ragged rims of thunder brooding low, With shadow streaks of rain." ***** " A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left...backward from the land Their moon-led waters white." * * * * • " As in strange lands a traveler walking slow, In doubt and great perplexity, A little... | |
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A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand; Left on the shore; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white. 
