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 630edited by - 1902 - 1084 pagesFull view - About this book
| Dublin city, univ - 1885 - 476 pages
...sunny spots of greenery. And from a chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in last thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently...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... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...A savage place.' as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a leaning moon wai haunted By woman nailing thrasher's nail: And 'mid these dancing rocks, at once and ever, It flung up momently the sacred river.... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1887 - 308 pages
...athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was hauuted By woman wailing for her demon-lover ! And from this...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1888 - 330 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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1888 - 328 pages
...was forced : Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding linil, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And...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... | |
| Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1890 - 402 pages
...here were forests ancient as the hills, Infolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh ! that chasm deep which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn...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,... | |
| William Ernest Henley - American poetry - 1891 - 394 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...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... | |
| William Ernest Henley - American poetry - 1891 - 404 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...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... | |
| American poetry - 1892 - 260 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... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...p. 70.) But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover 1 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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