For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard... The Poetical Works - Page 85by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 474 pagesFull view - About this book
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...Visions of the Future. I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Sair the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens...; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies, grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 558 pages
...heard my days before me, and the tumult of my life ; Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first...and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill'd with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly... | |
| 1842 - 788 pages
...heard my days before me, and the tumult of my life; Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first...and all the wonder that would be'; Saw the heavens fill'd with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ; Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something...; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...heard my days before me, and the tumult of my life; Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first...central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south- wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm ; Till... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...heard my days before me, and the tumult of my life ; Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 pages
...dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn; Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something...nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; i Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples... | |
| Edward Jesse - Berkshire (England) - 1847 - 430 pages
...as yet unfulfilled, has been maintained and expressed with picturesque force by a later poet : — Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...navies grappling in the central blue, Far along the world wide whisper of the south wind rushing warm, With the standard of the peoples plunging through... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1850 - 470 pages
...despairing land and a happy augury for the future. CHAPTER X. MODERN UTOPIAS. PROLOGUE OF QUOTATIONS. " Men, my brothers, men, the workers ever reaping something...and all the wonder that would be.— Saw the heavens flit with commerce, argosies of magic sails, : Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...Visions of the Future. I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens...bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies, grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide... | |
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