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" 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 630
edited by - 1902 - 1084 pages
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Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Infolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a...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...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from Some of the Best British and ...

George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...savage place ! as holy and enchinted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted IK woman wailing tor her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless...burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaft'y grain beneath the thresher's flail : And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung...
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The Children's Treasury of English Song

Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry - 1875 - 168 pages
...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 reach'd the caverns measureless to man, And sank...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from the Best British and American ...

George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1876 - 452 pages
...fragment is generally ranked among the finest specimens of purely imaginative poetry in our language. A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath...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...
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Rogers to Hemans

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon lover ! ay his tribe increase !) Awoke one night from a deep...gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold : And sicred river. Five miles, meandering with a mazy motion, Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections Form Some of the Best British and ...

George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...fragment is generally ranked among the finest specimens of purely imaginative poetry in our language. A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath...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...
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Poetical Works of Coleridge & Keats, Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 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...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...
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A Poetry-book of Modern Poets

Amelia B. Edwards - Poetry - 1878 - 358 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...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...
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Poems of Places Oceana 1 V.; England 4; Scotland 3 V: Iceland ..., Volume 23

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
...walls and towers were girdled round ; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests...fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beucath the thresher's flail : And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...that deep romantic chasm, which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover I A savage place I as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon...Through wood and dale, the sacred river ran — Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean ; And 'raid this tumult...
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