For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; I leard... Poems - Seite 103von Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 231 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Albert Ellery Berg - 1884 - 826 Seiten
...in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ; And his spirit leaps within him to begone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at,...and all the wonder that would be — Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails. Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly... | |
| George William Curtis - 1884 - 252 Seiten
...down with costly bales." Tennyson. SEA FROM SHORE. " Come unto these yellow sands." The Tempest. " Argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales." Tennyson. IN the month of June, Prue and I like to walk upon the Battery toward sunset, and watch the... | |
| Eau Claire Manor - 1884 - 492 Seiten
...spin. The steamship, it may be, will yet rot at the dock, set aside by airships, those "argosies with magic sails, pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales," and the locomotive be cast aside with the creaking and toiling prairie schooner steered by the Argonaut... | |
| California. Legislature - 1885 - 1039 Seiten
...spin. The steamship, it may be, will yet rot at the dock, set aside by airships, those ''argosies with magic sails, pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales," and the locomotive be cast aside with the creaking and toiling prairie schooner steered by the Argonaut... | |
| George Claude Lorimer - 1886 - 510 Seiten
...inequalities. But seeing this, believing this, we can with confidence echo the inspiring strain of the poet: Men, my brothers, men the workers ever reaping something...the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales; Lo! the war-drums throb uo longer, and the battle-flags are furled, In the parliament of man, the federation... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1887 - 508 Seiten
...ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of tlie things that they shall dot For I dipt into the future, far as humnn eye could...tho world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw tho heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails ; Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down... | |
| Joseph Henry Allen - 1887 - 608 Seiten
...us, sown with uncounted riches and white with harvests of unreaped wonder ? What shall make us " See the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down their costly bales " 'i What shall lead us beyond the visible heavens into the vast realms of the unseen,... | |
| Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1888 - 902 Seiten
...Africa, and other large areas not open to direct sea traffic ? Whether future generations will see " The heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales," or some form of electric carriage on land, may be matter for speculation ; but it is not altogether... | |
| John James Given - 1888 - 588 Seiten
...future, far as human eye cnuld see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonders that would bo ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, drooping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1889 - 894 Seiten
...feels, And the nations do but murmur, snarling at each other's heels. Can I but relive in sadness ? I will turn that earlier page. Hide me from my deep...the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; I leard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies... | |
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