 Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils...  History of English Literature - Page 521by Hippolyte Taine - 1871Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 pages
...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-fiush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. The... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1885 - 526 pages
...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream. Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunsct-flush'd; and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. The... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 302 pages
...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset -flush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. The... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...land : far off, three mountain-tops, Three silent pinnailes of aged snow, Stood sunset-flush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy... | |
 | Mrs. A. Orme-Webb - China - 1885 - 172 pages
...felt that at last the dream of my life was realized, and I was actually in Japan ! 82 CHAPTER X. " A land of streams ! some like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. — The Lotos-eaters. BEAUTIFUL JAPAN ! I do not think there can be any country in the world to equal... | |
 | Sussex (England) - 1885 - 344 pages
...leafy Weald, watered by the Adur, the Arun, and their numerous tributaries :— " A land of streams 1 some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling & slumbrous sheet of foam below." Sullington has... | |
 | Annie Brassey - Voyages and travels - 1885 - 576 pages
...streams ! Some like a downward smoke, Slow dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. Thursday, October 4th. WE were to have started for Cabo Girao (so named because Zargo and his companions... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...lAnd like a downward smoke, the slender stream {Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke. Slow-dropping...below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the/inner land : .far off, three mountain-tops, '' ' Stood sunset-flush'd : and, "deWfr with showery... | |
 | David Daiches - English literature - 1969 - 356 pages
...natural images to achieve a dream landscape is again characteristic. The details are often well observed: A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flush'd: . . . There are Keatsian echoes ("Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease"), but Tennyson's... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - Literary Criticism - 1949 - 802 pages
...but in intense colours and strong vivid forms. The heir of Keats liked the softer charm, and sang : A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.33 Browning preferred a complex vigour not unlike his own : And no ignoble presence! On the bulge... | |
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