 Their thousand wreaths of dangling water-smoke, That like a broken purpose waste in air : So waste not thou ; but come ; for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is...  The Works of Alfred Tennyson - Page 135by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...every sound, — Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet : Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. TENNYSON. Sprache. SBarum fann ber lebenbige ®eifl bem ©eifl шф! erfфeinen? ©priфt bie ©eele.... | |
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...furrow -cloven falls To roll the torrent out of dusky doors : But follow ; let the torrent dance thee down To find him in the valley ; let the wild Lean-headed...Listening ; then look'd. Pale was the perfect face ; TBe bosom with long sighs labour'd ; and meek Seem'd the full lips, and mild the luminous eyes, And... | |
 | 1881 - 622 pages
...is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.' "We have quoted this passage because in its short compass there are illustrations of all Mr. Tennyson's... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...the "Princess:" — Sweeter thy voice: but every sound is sweet: Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. The Mission of Tennyson. So much must suffice to indicate, in the briefest outline, and as if by few... | |
 | 1893 - 840 pages
...most sheltered monastic retreat (celibacy not being imperative) might have charms of its own : — The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. It is only fair to add that the Old Man's familiarity with modern English literature was highly creditable.... | |
 | 1896 - 664 pages
...beauty of the line. Then the three lines, of which MR. YARDLEY •quotes two, in 'The Princess':— Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan...immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. Charles Kingsley praises these three lines highly, ая he well may. The island-valley of Avilion,... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 pages
...every sound, — • Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet : Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. TENNYSON. Sprache. SBarum fann bet tebenbige (Seifl bem ©eifî шф( erfcfyetnen? «Spricht bie ©cele,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 pages
...is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And...low-toned ; while with shut eyes I lay Listening ; then looked. Pale was the perfect face ; The bosom with long sighs labored ; and meek Seemed the full lips,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 pages
...sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And...low-toned; while with shut eyes I lay Listening; then looked. Pale was the perfect face; The bosom with long sighs labored; and meek Seemed the full lips,... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1852 - 216 pages
...is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn. The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. Remembering these things, when I came down and found Olde and Swansdowne under the Corinthian colonnade,... | |
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