The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That... The North British Review - Página 2341864Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1865 - 820 páginas
...description of the tropical island on which the sailor is thrown is an absolute model of adorned art : " The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems, and ran Even to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the... | |
| 1864 - 496 páginas
...leave him alone in the solitary tropic isle whose scenery is thus finely described by the poet — " The mountain, wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of bisect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and... | |
| 1864 - 808 páginas
...the beauteous hateful isle," which holds the humble Ulysses of the tale so long a prisoner : — " The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, Tbo lightning- Sash of insect and of bird, the glows And glories of the broad belt of the world, All... | |
| 1864 - 744 páginas
...to the lonely cast« away, almost bewildering the imagination with its rich magnificence : — " Thn mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The »lender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, ' The lustre of... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1865 - 136 páginas
...fell Sun-stricken, and that other lived alone. In those two deaths he read God's warning, " Wait." * The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems, and ran Even to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1865 - 214 páginas
...fell * Sun-stricken, and that other lived alone. In those two deaths he read God's warning 'wait.' The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes,The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses 37 That coil'd... | |
| 1866 - 744 páginas
...would have been gladdened by a sight that might have ravished eyes long used to Nature's beauty. He saw "The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately elms, and ran Ev n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 166 páginas
...fashion, fell Sun-stricken, and that other lived alone. In those two deaths he read God's warning 'wait.' The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses 37 That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 páginas
...fell Sun-stricken, and that other lived alone. In those two deaths he read God's warning, " wait." The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to heaven. The slender cocoa's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long... | |
| Henry Allon - 1864 - 536 páginas
...fell Sun-stricken, and that other lived alone. In those two deaths he read God's warning, " wait." The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the... | |
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