 he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary...  The Living Age - Page 2011871Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...illustrated in the following passage from the " Lotos- Eaters." " In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
 | 1847 - 556 pages
...reminded of the fine passage in Tennyson's " Lotos Eaters :" " In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon ; All round the...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream." " Every one," says our author, " seemed to be under the influence of some narcotic. Even the officers... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 276 pages
...the land; " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1851 - 110 pages
...the strand; 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon; All round the...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream; Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pages
...the land ; " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1855 - 522 pages
...waterlilies; he makes them a land to suit their condition. " In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the...swoon, . Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the... | |
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