 | 1900 - 780 pages
...willing to undertake it. — From Fluerscheini' s Real Hisfory of Money Island. LOW TIDE ON GRAND-PRE. The sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches...tide Such unelusive glories fall, I almost dream they jet will bide Until the coming of the title. And yet I know that not for us, By any ecstacy of dream,... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1907 - 636 pages
...tide is out. On the right are hay fields and hay barns which the dykes protect. LOW TIDE ON' GRAND-PRE The sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches...uncomforted of dream — A grievous stream, that to and fro All through the fields of Acadie Goes wandering, as if to know Why one beloved face should btSo long... | |
 | Naomi Gwladys Royde-Smith - English poetry - 1908 - 312 pages
...Songs from Vagabondia (three series), 1894-1901 (Elkin Matthews and John Lane). LOW TIDE ON GRAND PRE THE sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches...while the grievous stream, Which frets, uncomforted of dreamA grievous stream, that to and fro Ath rough the fields of Acadie Goes wandering, as if to know... | |
 | Helen Archibald Clarke - Acadians - 1909 - 344 pages
...tarries long, Of the noble Count Arnaldos And the sailor's mystic song." UNDER THE SHADOW OF BLOMIDON "The sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches...uncomforted of dream — "A grievous stream, that to and fro Althrough the fields of Acadie Goes wandering, as if to know Why one beloved face should be So long... | |
 | Church and the world - 1911 - 440 pages
...for "Low Tide at Grand Pre," which appeared first in The Atlantic Monthly: Low TIDE AT GRAND PR£. The sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches...uncomforted of dream — A grievous stream, that to and fro All through the fields of Acadie Goes wandering, as if to know Why one beloved face should be So long... | |
 | Charles Hanson Towne - Acadia - 1923 - 272 pages
...Grand Pre" we find these loveliest of lines: The sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches of the tide Such unelusive glories fall, I almost dream...grievous stream, Which frets, uncomforted of dream — 178 A grievous stream, that to and fro Athrough the fields of Acadie Goes wandering, as if to know... | |
 | 1924 - 574 pages
...was beyond, over against Blomidon, among the Annapolis orchards or about low tide on Grand Pre : " The sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches...dream they yet will bide Until the coming of the tide. . . . Was it a year or lives ago We took the grasses in our hands. And caught the summer flying low... | |
 | Best books - 1928 - 354 pages
..."Low Tide at Grand Pre" came to my mind — "The sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches of the tide Such unelusive glories fall I almost dream...they yet will bide Until the coming of the tide." A year later I was rather startled when I received a telegram directed to me at my apartment in Toronto.... | |
 | W. Lefroy - 1906 - 586 pages
...Moreover, in some of his best-known poems — for example, in '• Low Tide on Grand Pré," which begins " The sun goes down, and over all • These barren reaches...they yet will bide Until the coming of the tide," he makes experiments in form which are almost uncannily successful. In this poem the effect of the... | |
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THE sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches by the tide Such unelusive glories fall, I almost dream they yet will bide • Until the coming of the tide. And yet I know that not for us, By any ecstasy of dream... 
