 ... bleating, as I did, And saw, she hastening on, its hinder feet Struggle, and from her snowy shoulder slip, One shoulder its poor efforts had unveil'd, Then all my passions mingling fell in tears; Restless then ran I to the highest ground To watch...  Six Months in Persia - Page 5by Edward Stack - 1882Full view - About this book
 | 1905 - 606 pages
...him the moonray on the sea sand called forth all the emotions of Landor's lines : • And the long moonbeam on the hard wet sand Lay like a jasper column half up-reared,' lines familiar to every companion who shared de Vere's moonlit walks along the shore. The nightingale... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1824 - 616 pages
...ran I to the highest ground ; •' To watch her ; she was com1 ; gone down the tide ; And the long moonbeam on the hard wet sand Lay like a jasper column half upreared.' — Soak lit. KK 3 lion, lion, and vigour of contention, as the celebrated game at chess between the... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 704 pages
...Restless then ran I to the highest ground To watch her; she was gone ; gone down the tide ; And the long moon-beam on the hard wet sand Lay like a jasper column half up-rear'di" " But, Tamar ! tell me, will she not return ? " " She will return, yet not before the moon... | |
 | charles black - 1850 - 630 pages
...Restless then ran I to the highest ground To watch her: she was gone; gone down the tide ; And the long moonbeam on the hard wet sand Lay like a jasper column half uprear'd.' Not less in the spirit of antiquity is the following image: ' And now the chariot of the... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 770 pages
...ear, And it remembers its august abodes And murmurs as theoceanmurmurs there."1 Ibid. " AND the long moon-beam on the hard wet sand Lay like a jasper column half uprear'd." Ibid. " NOR is there aught above like Jove himself, [fixt, Nor weighs against his purpose,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English literature - 1853 - 312 pages
...Shower'd on the lonely Latmian ; on his brow Sorrow there was, but there was nought severe/ ' And the long moonbeam on the hard wet sand Lay like a jasper column half up-reared.' f The king, who sate before his tent, descried The dust rise reddened from the setting sun.1 Now let... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 320 pages
...on the lonely Latmian ; on his brow Sorrow there was, but there was nought severe.' ' And the long moonbeam on the hard wet sand Lay like a. jasper column half up-rear'd.' 1 The king, who sale before his tent, descried The dust rise redden'd from the setting... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English literature - 1853 - 310 pages
...on the lonely Latmian ; on his brow Sorrow there was, but there was nought severe.' ! ' And the long moonbeam on the hard wet sand Lay like a jasper column half up-rear'd.' ' The king, who sate before his tent, descried The dust rise redden' d from the selling... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 316 pages
...on the lonely Latmian ; on his brow Sorrow there was, but there was nought severe.' ' And the long moonbeam on the hard wet sand Lay like a jasper column half up-rea^d.' ' The king, who sate before his tent, descried The dust rise redden' d from the setting... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 320 pages
...on the lonely Latmian ; on his brow Sorrow there was, but there was nought severe.' ' And the long moonbeam on the hard wet sand Lay like a jasper column half up-rear' d.' ' The king, who sate before his tent, descried The dust rise redden'd from the setting... | |
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