 A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently...  The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 - Page 630edited by - 1902 - 1084 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon -lover ! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,...like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher'* flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.... | |
 | Elinor Mead Buckingham - English poetry - 1897 - 356 pages
...only as a bit of the most sumptuous music in our poetry, expressive of " heaven and elysian bowers." Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And...motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - English poetry - 1898 - 394 pages
...incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail ; And 'mid those dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 pages
...seething, As if this earth in fast, thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced; Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy...motion, Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : And 'mid this tumult,... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 268 pages
...seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: 20 Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments...once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. 25 Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...Amid whose swift ha If- intermitted burst 20 Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chafK grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these...motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the cavems measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult... | |
 | John Foster, Gordon Dennis - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1995 - 136 pages
...pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst 20 Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy...sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion 25 Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank... | |
 | Stephen Bonnycastle - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 252 pages
...Where AJph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 308 pages
...pulsating creative energy, exciting and challenging, regularly and periodically violent and repelling: And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,...motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean ... (ll. 17-28) This... | |
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