...adequate appreciation of the movement in the poem. I had not learned to trace the successive steps from "And in my heart, if calm at all, If any calm, a calm despair," near the beginning of the poem, to "To-day the grave is bright for me," in the epilogue. But there...

...cannot the historian spare a word or two to give reality and life to the great figures of the past? Calm and still light on yon great plain That sweeps...lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main. The adjective is scarcely the enemy of the noun in that third line. When we read history, we want to...

...word or two to give reality and life to the great figures of the past? Calm and still light on j'on great plain That sweeps with all its autumn bowers,...lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main. The adjective is scarcely the enemy of the noun in that third line. When we read history, we want to...

...life to the great figures of the past ? Calm and still light ou yon great plain That sweeps with nil its autumn bowers, And crowded farms and lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding maiu. The adjective is scarcely the enemy of the noun in that third line. When we read history, we...

...on these dews that drench the furze, And all the silvery gossamers That twinkle into green and gold: Calm and still light on yon great plain That sweeps...lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main.« (XI). Men saa rejser Stormen sig, og Landskabet forvandles: .To-night the winds begin to rise And roar...

...these dews that drench the furze, And all the silvery gossamers That twinkle into green and gold ; Calm and still light on yon great plain. That sweeps...heart, if calm at all, If any calm, a calm despair. Before considering any complete exceptions to the rule, we must mention the names of four English poets...

...these dews that drench the furze, And all the silvery gossamers That twinkle into green and gold ; Calm and still light on yon great plain, That sweeps...the fall ; And in my heart, if calm at all, If any cairn, a calm despair. Before considering any complete exceptions to the rule, we must mention the...

...landscape to which Shelley or Wordsworth would have allotted twenty or thirty lines, is done in four : Calm and still light on yon great plain That sweeps...lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main. This is Tennyson's concentrated manner, and the landscape seems all the larger from the previous description...

...landscape to which Shelley or Wordsworth would have allotted twenty or thirty lines, is done in four : Calm and still light on yon great plain That sweeps...lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main. This is Tennyson's concentrated manner, and the landscape seems all the larger from the previous description...

...plain, stretch away forty miles to the northward until they meet the distant waters of the Humber. " Calm and still light on yon great plain That sweeps...lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main." * The grassy expanse of the Lincolnshire wolds, " wide, wild, and open to the air," under a heaven...