...every shower, descend innumerable streams ; it is a veritable realization of the Lotuseaters' dream : " In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it...swoon, 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...

...described, may here be illustrated by an example, from Tennyson's " Lotos Eaters." " ' Courage ! ' he said, and pointed toward the land, ' This mounting...came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. AH round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Fult'iaced...

...seen the emblem of the Lotus, and the visitor feels an air of repose like that of the wanderers when In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. But the afternoons at the Lotus last far into the night. Story, travel, and song are so well blended'...

...tale-stori Ram-pe is reserved for the next chapter. CHAPTEE V. In the afternoon they came into a land Where it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Full-faced above the valley stood the moon, And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the...

...warily, Singing airily, Standing about the charmed root. (i833) LXXXI THE LOTOS-EATERS " COURAGE ! " he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting...dream. Full-faced' above the valley stood the moon; lAnd like a downward smoke, the slender stream {Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem....

..."afternoon" and repeated "land," instead of another word to rhyme with its occurrence two lines back — "In the afternoon they came unto a land / In which it seemed always afternoon" — herald a coming lassitude and abandon, as if the description itself were like a whiff of the narcotic...

...grooves of change. (1. 181—182) BLPL; EBEV; FaBoBe; FaFP; NAEL-2; OAEL-2 The Lotus-Eaters 80 "Courage!" y as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman...sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What (1. 1—4) 81 A land where all things always seemed the same! And round about the keel with faces pale....

...has his own humor, and original rhythm, music and images. How ring his humorsome lines in the ear,— "In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon."55 The Old Year's Death56 pleases me most. But why I speak of him now is because he had...

...diction has a Tennysonian ring, and the landscape is somewhat like that of "The Lotos-Eaters," where "the languid air did swoon, / Breathing like one that hath a weary dream." The stream in Ishmael's picture does not move, but the artist must give it the sense of movement, for...

...place in his 1832 poem The LotosEaters — it was a place "In which it seemed always afternoon./All round the coast the languid air did swoon, /Breathing like one that hath a weary dream." The lotus here is probably not the water lily, but the buckthorn, a shrubby plant with a sweet juice...