 Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels. — And on a sudden, lo !...  The Holy Grail and Other Poems - Page 141by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1913 - 878 pages
...flight of stairs. Daniel clattered slowly and carefully up them, basing his feet, like Sir Bedivere, on "Juts of slippery crag that rang sharp-smitten with the dint of arm€d heels." We had reached the top in safety when I heard a thin and wavering squeal behind me,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of...level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon. Tlien saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1855 - 520 pages
...cla-=h'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of...level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon." The two last lines place you on the very spot: you see it almost with your bodily eyes. And marvellous... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...clashed his harness in the icy caves and barren chasms, and all to left and right the bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based his feet on juts of...heels — and on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, and tho long glories of the winter moon. Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, dark as a funeral... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...clas1i'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right Ml The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of...barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Heneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled,... | |
 | 1856 - 416 pages
...clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of...that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels ; do we not seem to burst from the narrow steep path down the ravine, whose tall precipitous sides... | |
 | 1855 - 338 pages
...clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of...that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels ; do we not seem to burst from the narrow steep path down the ravine, whose tall precipitous sides... | |
 | George Brimley - English literature - 1858 - 376 pages
...harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang' d round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery...that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels ; do we not seem to burst from the narrow steep path down the ravine, whose tall precipitous sides... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1859 - 356 pages
...harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare, black cliffs clanged round him as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag, that rang, Sharp smitten with the dint of armed heels, Till, on a sudden, lo ! the level lake And the long glories... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - Bookbinding - 1860 - 546 pages
...clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of...level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon." The two last lines place you on the very spot: you see it almost with your bodily eyes. And marvellous... | |
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