Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Poems - Seite 93von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 231 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1893 - 840 Seiten
...we call the Sun, If that hypothesis of theirs be sound. Those three stars of the airy Giant's zone. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went...like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. The image of the fire-flies in the last of these lines, recalling that of the " bee-like swarms " in... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 Seiten
...that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went...like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. t Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ¡vied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the west. Many a night I eaw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went...to the west. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 Seiten
...Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies...tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time;... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 Seiten
...Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies...tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time;... | |
| 1853 - 604 Seiten
...a judgment is only possible in very decided cases, or by the peremptory verdict of private taste. " Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarin of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid." Who will venture to institute a sure comparison of... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 Seiten
...like a soul ascending from the grave ! SIMMONS. STABS. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. TENNYSON. This wood I've enter'd oft when all in sheen The princely Morning walks o'er diamond dews,... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 Seiten
...all the constellations visible in our northern hemisphere are appropriately introduced in his poems. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went...like a swarm of fireflies, tangled in a silver braid. But Tennyson goes farther in his poetry than merely describing what we can all observe for ourselves.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 404 Seiten
...that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went...tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander' d, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time;... | |
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