For the peace, that I deem'd no peace, is over and done, And now by the side of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire. Personal and literary - Page 141by William Ewart Gladstone - 1879Full view - About this book
| 1855 - 620 pages
...us to such lines as, ' Now to the scream of a maddened beach dragged down by tbc wave,' or to ' The deathful grinning mouths of the fortress flames, The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire.' The present volume contains other metrical experiments, which deserve more consideration than we can... | |
| 1855 - 684 pages
...splendid names, And noble thought be freer under the sun, And the heart of a people boat with one desire; For the long, long canker of peace is over and done....The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire." Throughout the poem, there ore those happy lines, pictures in a phrase, and accurate and exquisite... | |
| 1855 - 504 pages
...peace is over and done. And now by the side of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war, with a heart of fire." All the evils, the " curses of peace," which the poet has summed up, in powerful verse, will exist... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 180 pages
...peace is over and done ; And now by the side of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire. THE BROOK; AN IDYL. ' HERE, by this brook, we parted; I to the East And he for Italy — too late —... | |
| University magazine - 1855 - 776 pages
...peace is over and done. And now by the »ide of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire," Such is Tennyson's "Maud" — in some sort a romance of love, but with a deeper meaning and object.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 176 pages
...peace is over and done _, And now by the side of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grirming mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire. THE BKOOK; AN IDYL. ' HERE, by this brook, we parted; I to the East And he for Italy — too late —... | |
| Thomas Taylor Meadows - 1856 - 732 pages
...her harvest ripen, her herd increase, Nor the cannon bullet rust on a slothful shore. • ***•• For the long long canker of peace is over and done,...The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire." Mr. Tennyson cannot have seen either the " blood " or the " flames " of war, or he could not have published... | |
| Thomas Taylor Meadows - 1856 - 746 pages
...harvest ripen, her herd increase, Nor the cannon bullet rust on a slothful shore. • ••••• For the long long canker of peace is over and done,...The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire." Mr. Tennyson cannot have seen either the " blood " or the " flames " of war, or he could not have published... | |
| 1859 - 598 pages
...personages by whom, as Dr. Whewell assures us, the planet Jupiter is inhabited, if inhabited at all. But the most doubtful part of the poem is its climax....the picture of a mania which has reached its zenith. We might call in aid of this construction more happy and refreshing passages from other poems, as wheu... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 188 pages
...no peace, is over and ' And now by the side of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire. 5. Let it flame or fade, and the war roll down like a wind, "We have proved we have hearts in a cause,... | |
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