 Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils...  Poems - Page 169by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 382 pages
...the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, 10 Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And...From the inner land : far off, three mountain-tops, 15 Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset flush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1879 - 236 pages
...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, _ Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner... | |
 | English poetry - 1879 - 314 pages
...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall, and panse, and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...slender stream Along the ' ! i : i to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some Шеe a downward smoke. Slow-dropping veils of thinnest...And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Boiling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land... | |
 | Peter Bayne - English literature - 1879 - 470 pages
...appropriateness. The Lotos -land is one in which everything proceeds languidly, pausingly, dreamily. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go. Whoever lias seen a stream in its midsummer slenderness of volume, falling down a front of rock divided... | |
 | PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...appropriateness. The Lotos-land is one in which everything proceeds languidly, pausingly, dreamily. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go. Whoever has seen a stream in its midsummer slenderness of volume, falling down a front of rock divided... | |
 | Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1880 - 588 pages
...scenery continued to increase in beauty, and the cascades were really splendid : " A land of streams I some, like a downward smoke. Slow-dropping veils of...And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Boiling a slumbrous sheet of foam below." The river dashed noisily through the centre of the gorge,... | |
 | Thomas Sedgwick Steele - Maine - 1880 - 154 pages
...the picture, and I was daily discovering new beauties of scenery little known to the outside world. " A land of streams ! Some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below." Through the long... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 474 pages
...like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. n. 10 A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1881 - 502 pages
...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...Stood sunset-flush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, The charmed sunset linger' d low adown In the red West : thro' mountain clefts the dale Was seen far... | |
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