In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke, the slender... Poems - Página 142de Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 379 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 382 páginas
...reality. ALFRED TENNYSON: 1809. THE LOTOS-EATERS. " COURAGE ! " he said, and pointed toward the laud, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In...afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, 5 Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like... | |
| 1879 - 524 páginas
...breast — And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. THE LOTOS-EATERS. " COURAGE ! he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the af ternoon they came unto a land, ln which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid... | |
| Arthur Griffiths - 1879 - 320 páginas
...afternoon., ' Upon my word, Mr. Gwynne., ' Or perhaps you have never read Tennyson ? , ' Try me — In the afternoon they came unto a land — In which it seemed always afternoon. I should not like a country where it was always afternoon., 'No? Why not?, ' Too suggestive of laziness,... | |
| Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 474 páginas
...Full of sad experience moving toward the stillness of his rest. THE LOTOS-EATERS. I. " Courage ! " he said, and pointed toward the land ; "This mounting...unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. s All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced... | |
| Sir Edward James Reed - 1880 - 416 páginas
...difficult landing-place, upon an isle so pleasant that one began to think of the " Lotus-eaters " — " In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon." It was curious to observe that in anticipation of earthquakes the lighting machinery of the lighthouse... | |
| Charles S. Robinson - 1880 - 340 páginas
...Christian travelers, as the Laureate sings of those whom only his imagination saw on the journey : " In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon." XXV. THE FINAL PRAYER. HE WHICH TESTIFIETH THESE THINGS SAITH, SURELY I COME QUICKLY ; AMEN. EVEN so,... | |
| James Coutts - 1880 - 132 páginas
...fit to be the speech of those weary of the sea, the oar, " The wandering fields of barren foam." " In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon." The frequency of the vowels lends it an Italian softness, but, like that of all rude people, it is... | |
| John Richard Blakiston - 1881 - 326 páginas
...that of which our poet-laureate thus writes : — ' In the afternoon they came unto a land Wherein it seemed always afternoon ; All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that had a troubled dream. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land ; far off three... | |
| 1872 - 586 páginas
...All things seemed to quiver and reel in the glaring heat of the sun ; it was a " lotos-eating " day. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Lulled by the drowsy peacefulness of everything about me, and the monotonous regularity of all the... | |
| F. T. Wilson - 1881 - 234 páginas
...fortress, and are lounging away the hours while the busy waves are moaning and murmuring about them. "All round the coast the languid air did swoon, breathing like one who hath a weary dream." They are at peace with themselves and the world ; they have found a land of... | |
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