 To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height; To hear each other's whisper'd speech; Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray; To...  Floral poesy - Page 224by Floral poesy - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 208 pages
...et cundti simul ' Insula nostra remota est Trans mare; ne spumas iterum tentemus et aestum. JPL How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
 | 1870 - 972 pages
...be, " Hearing the downward stream. With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling nslecp in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light Which will not leave the myrrh-bush oil the height; To hear each other's whispered speech ; To watch the crisping ripples on... | |
 | 1871 - 476 pages
...In silence ripen, fall, and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease ! V. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut...like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height ; 45 To hear each other's whispered speech ; Eating the Lotus, day by day,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...In silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. 5How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1872 - 510 pages
...expressed tlui dreamy, languid feeling which the lotus-food i» said to have produced " How sweet it wore, hearing the downward stream With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1874 - 180 pages
...silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. v. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
 | John Brougham, John Elderkin - 1875 - 498 pages
...silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. 5. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. v. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dn-am and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...silence ripen, fall, and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease ! v. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...Sleep, full of rest from head to feet; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. TENNYSON: To J. S+ How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream ! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the... | |
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