Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise. Essays - Page 73by George Brimley - 1858 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1844 - 826 pages
...its burning emotions, that we recur to it with pleasure. We rejoice to follow him to regions where ' Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrout woodland, droops the trailer from the crag." It is rather, we say, on account of such lines... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day. *. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade...woodland, droops the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavyfruited tree— Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade...woodland, droops the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavyfruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres... | |
| 1843 - 418 pages
...of the day. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shades and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise. Never comes...woodland, droops the trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres... | |
| 1844 - 834 pages
...its buruing emotions, that we recur to it with pleasure. We rejoice to follow him to regions where " Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag,...lustrous woodland, droops the trailer from the crag." It is rather, we say, on account of such lines as these (no picture of tropical loveliness ever surpassed,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade...woodland, droops the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...burning, mellow moons and happy Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise. Xever comes the trader, never floats an European flag, Slides...woodland, droops the trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavyfruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 pages
...wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade...woodland, droops the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavyfruited tree — Summer-isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...far , away, On from island unto island at the gateways of tha l day. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade...woodland, droops the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the . heavy-fruited tree-^- | Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple... | |
| 1847 - 722 pages
...compared with the evenly-falling couplets of Tennyson, such as, " Never comes a trader ; never floats a European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, droops the trailer from the crag." — where, out of fourteen feet, only three are not trochees. Accordingly, Blackwood's critic objected... | |
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