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" A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white. "
Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets - Page 512
by William Howitt - 1847
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The Dial, Volume 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1843 - 564 pages
...complete a success? " A still salt pool, locked in with bars of sand ; Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white." Tennyson delights in a garden. Its groups, and walks, and mingled bloom intoxicate him, and us through...
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Poems, Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...for one sure goal. A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand ; Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white. A star that with the choral starry dance Join'd not, but stood, and standing saw The hollow orb of...
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Poems

James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 584 pages
...these excellences. " A still, salt pool, locked in with bars of sand, Left on the shore ; which hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters while." PHILIP. That is one of the most perfect images in any language, and as a picture of a soul...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...for one sure goal. A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand ; Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white. A star that with the choral starry dance Join'd not, but stood, and standing saw The hollow orb of...
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Essays and Reviews ...

Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...of rain." ***** " A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left on the shore — that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white." * * * * • " As in strange lands a traveler walking slow, In doubt and great perplexity, A little...
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The Young Man's Counsellor; Or, Sketches and Illustrations of the Duties and ...

Daniel Wise - Conduct of life - 1850 - 282 pages
...for one sure goal. " A still salt pool, locked in with bars of sand ; Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white. " A star that with the choral starry dance Joined not, but stood, and standing saw The hollow orb of...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...Or power of movement, seem'd my soul, 'Mid onward-sloping motions infinite Making for one sure goal. The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white. A star that with the choral starry dance Join'd not, but stood, and standing saw The hollow orb of...
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Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances

Edward FitzGerald - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 172 pages
...Making for one sure goal. A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left on the shore, that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white. Remaining utterly confused with fears, And ever worse with growing time, And ever unrelieved by dismal...
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Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side

Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 234 pages
...influence of mild-minded melancholy To muse and brood, and live again in memory. TENNYSON. That hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white. TENNYSON. And the great sea-waves below, Pulse o' the midnight, beating slow. WHITTIEH. CONTENTS. PRELUDE...
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Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side

Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 pages
...influence of mild-minded melancholy To muse and brood, and live again hi memory. TENNYSON. That hears ail night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white. TENNYSON. And the great sea-waves below, Pulse o' the midnight, beating slow. WHITTIER. ft. CONTENTS....
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