And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as, one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed Where the long grasses stifle the water within the stream's bed;... The Twentieth Century Magazine - Page 250edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
| Literature - 1901 - 872 pages
...splendor of color and form, and palaces and pageantry, and clouds that shift and move in the firmament As star follows star Into eve and the blue far above us— so blue and so fax! Somehow we were glad to get back to Grasmere again, and there came upon us an inexpressible quietness,... | |
| Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...round its chords Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide — Those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the tune all our sheep know, As,...Where the long grasses stifle the water Within the stream 's bed : How one after one seeks its lodging, As star follows star Into eve and the blue far... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1856 - 686 pages
...twine round its chords Lest they snap neath the stress of the noontide — those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as,...and the blue far above us, — so blue and so far ! Numerous passages, too, it contains of that rich picturesque genre which marks some of the poet's... | |
| Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...round its chords Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide — those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as,...and the blue far above us, — so blue and so far ! 6. — Then the tune, for which quails on the cornland will each leave his mate To fly after the... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1856 - 684 pages
...round its chords Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide — those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as,...one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door, tffl folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed "Wbere the long... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 872 pages
...Where shall one turn for verse to excel the pastoral effect of the following lines from ' Saul ' ? And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as,...eve and the blue far above us — so blue and so far ! How perfect ! The very movement of a flock of sheep has been caught, and the pervasive twilight tenderness... | |
| Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...round its chords Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide — those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as,...and the blue far above us, — so blue and so far! vt — Then the tune, for which quails on the cornland will each leave his mate To fly after the player... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 436 pages
...round its chords Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide — Those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the tune all our sheep know, As,...long grasses stifle the water Within the stream's bed : How one after one seeks its lodging, As star follows star Into eve and the blue far above us, Then... | |
| Acrostics - 1866 - 280 pages
...who ruled In Coventry." 6. " A little child, scarce eight years old, And she was crowned a Queen." 6. "They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo,...long grasses stifle the water within the stream's bed ; Y And now one afler one seeks his lodging, as star follows star Into eve and the blue sky above us.... | |
| 1867 - 832 pages
...tells, in the same glorious rushing rhythm, how David poured from his harp " first the tune all the sheep know as, one after one, so docile they come to the pen-door," then the " help-tune of the reapers, their wine-song, when hand presses hand, and eye quickens eye... | |
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