| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 sivua
...silence; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1893 - 652 sivua
...expressed the dreamy, languid feeling which the lotus-food is said to have produced. "... How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1893 - 642 sivua
...expressed the dreamy, languid feeling which the lotus-food is said to have produced. "... How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
| Edward Granville Browne - 1893 - 618 sivua
...this eventful day, then, let me open a new chapter. CHAPTER XVII AMONGST THE KALANDARS " How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush'on the... | |
| 1879 - 590 sivua
...low as Lear's daughter's, she repeated Tennyson's beautiful lines, — " How sweet it were, bearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
| William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, Antonia Dickson - 1894 - 394 sivua
...that rude clamor which attends the onward march of civilization. Wistfully we murmur: '' How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream With half-shut...eyes, ever to seem Falling asleep in a half dream." But it may not be, aud summoning our truant senses, we indulge in one of those rapid flights, familiar... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 348 sivua
...silence j ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. v. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
| Mrs. Hans Blackwood - 1894 - 528 sivua
...jealous of ' the pretty Miss Smith.' 167 CHAPTER XIV. 'KIND HEARTS ARE MOEE THAN CORONETS.' ' How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes, ever to seem Falling to sleep in half a dream.' — TENNYSON. DAISY hurried away out of the house — on, on she went, away,... | |
| Margaret Sullivan Mooney - 1895 - 350 sivua
...silence; ripen, fall, and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 284 sivua
...silence ; ripen, fall, and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease. v. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem 100 Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave... | |
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