 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 35von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 261 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 Seiten
...from yonder ivied easement, ere 1 went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the west. } 2 tire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 Seiten
...went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' vic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth...and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time ;... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 Seiten
...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. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time ;... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1881 - 748 Seiten
...long roll of the honoured names and the inestimable works that add lustre to an age already rich " With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time." CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. ANCIENT SCIENCE. Page I INTRODUCTORY, I — Thales, 5 — Anaximander, 10 —... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 Seiten
...great Orion sloping slowly to the west Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow >c shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled...centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed; >i When I clung to all the present for the promise that it closed : When I dipped into the future far... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 Seiten
...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. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time ;... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 Seiten
...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. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time ;... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 Seiten
...narrow gorge, Fixed his blank eyes upon the sun." Tennyson has a different theory .of the Pleiads : "Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the...a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid." — Locksley Hall. Byron alludes to the lost Pleiad: "Like the lost Pleiad seen no more below." See... | |
 | Richard L. Stein - 1988 - 361 Seiten
...ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the west. Many nights I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade,...sublime, With the fairy tales of science, and the last result of Time; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed; When I clung to all... | |
 | Peter L. Duren, Richard Askey, Uta C. Merzbach, Harold M. Edwards - 1988 - 490 Seiten
...Perhaps we should close with a few lines from Tennyson's Locksley Hall: Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of...result of Time When the centuries behind me like a fruitlike land reposed; When I clung to all the present for the promise that it closed; When I dipt... | |
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