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" Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. "
Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History - Page 129
by Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 pages
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Enoch Arden ; And, The Two Locksley Halls

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 190 pages
...floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings 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 of sea." Locksley Hall, 159-64. "There is another secret of the Laureate's strength,"...
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The Expository Times, Volume 8

James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - 1897 - 598 pages
...generated a wish — To wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day, where Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavyfruited tree, — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea. There, methinks, would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, —...
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The Living Age, Volume 213

1897 - 916 pages
...within the charmed circle where sinecure offices may be the reward of a judicious choice of parents. There, methinks, would be enjoyment, more than in this march of mind, as well as more than in the state of nature on the islands where one is mated with a squalid savage....
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The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 752 pages
...floats an European fiag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited...of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. There methmks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the...
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Poems of Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1903 - 644 pages
...floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited...methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march 165 of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 92

1903 - 1046 pages
...within the charmed circle where sinecure offices may be the reward of a judicious choice of parents. There, methinks, would be enjoyment, more than in this march of mind, as well as more than in the state of nature on the islands where one is mated with a squalid savage....
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The Shorter Poems of Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 340 pages
...Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag ; Droops the hea vy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles...would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, 165 In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions cramp'd...
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The Adventures of a Civil Engineer: Fifty Years on Five Continents

Charles Ormsby Burge - 1909 - 364 pages
...awful presence of this wonderful mountain, massive and rugged, and alone. Then at the lower levels, " Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree, Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea." It is the land of flowers and fruit. They contend for mastery everywhere...
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English Poetry: In Three Volumes; With Introduction and Notes, Volume 42

1910 - 532 pages
...floats an European flag. Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited...of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. There mcthinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the...
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Century Readings for a Course in English Literature, Volume 2

John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young, James Francis Augustine Pyre - 1915 - 538 pages
...Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles...would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, l65 7б6 THE POET'S SONG There the passions cramped no. longer shall have scope and breathing space;...
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