 All heavy-winged with brine, Here lies above the folded crest The Channel's leaden line; And here the sea-fogs lap and cling, And here, each warning each, The sheep-bells and the ship-bells ring Along the hidden beach. We have no waters to delight Our...  The Five Nations - Page 71by Rudyard Kipling - 1903 - 215 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature, Modern - 1927 - 1010 pages
...hence they are known as 'dew-ponds.' Kipling refers to them in his poetical description of Sussex: 'We have no waters to delight Our broad and brookless...the dew-pond on the height Unfed, that never fails.' "In recent years some careful studies of dew-ponds have been made by Mr. Edward A. Martin, and he has... | |
 | Sports - 1914 - 586 pages
...enwrap the high ground after nightfall. Its surroundings recall the poet's lines : — We have no water to delight Our broad and brookless vales — Only...herbage tells Which way the season flies, Only our close-bit thyme that smells Like dawn in Paradise. Very different from an inland course is this course... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1903 - 230 pages
...Sou'west All heavy-winged with brine, Here lies above the folded crest The Channel's leaden line ; And here the sea-fogs lap and cling, And here, each...herbage tells Which way the season flies — Only our close-bit thyme that smells Like dawn in Paradise. Here through the strong unhampered days The tinkling... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1903 - 236 pages
...Sou'west All heavy-winged with brine, Here lies above the folded crest The Channel's leaden line ; And here the sea-fogs lap and cling, And here, each...herbage tells Which way the season flies — Only our close-bit thyme that smells Like dawn in Paradise. Here through the strong unhampered days The tinkling... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - Sussex (England) - 1904 - 460 pages
...sou'west All heavy-winged with brine, Here lies above the folded crest The channels lifted line ; / And here the sea-fogs lap and cling, And here, each...Whereby no tattered herbage tells Which way the season flics — Only our wind-bit thyme that smells Like dawn in Paradise. Here through the strong and shadeless... | |
 | Arthur John Hubbard, Henry Griffin - Dew-ponds - 1905 - 92 pages
...CATTLE-TRACKS NEAR TO FIGSBURY RING . 65 XXV. DISTANT VIEW OF CATTLE-TRACKS NEAR FIGSBURY RING . . .69 " We have no waters to delight Our broad and brookless...herbage tells Which way the season flies — Only the close-bit thyme that smells Like Dawn in Paradise." RUDYARD KIPLING, "The Five Nations" (Sussex).... | |
 | Maria Theresa Villiers Earle - 1906 - 412 pages
...King knew better, and never fired at a hen.' An amusing gamekeeper's view of the merits of royalty. We have no waters to delight Our broad and brookless...tattered herbage tells Which way the season flies ; Only the close-bit thyme, that smells Like dawn in Paradise. From ' The Five Nations.' Rudyard Kipling.... | |
 | Robert Pickett Scott - English poetry - 1907 - 452 pages
...full Sou'west All heavy-winged with brine, Here lies above the folded crest The Channel's leaden line; And here the sea-fogs lap and cling, And here, each...herbage tells Which way the season flies— Only our close-bit thyme that smells Like dawn in Paradise. Here through the strong unhampered days The tinkling... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1907 - 420 pages
...Sou'west All heavy-winged with brine, Here lies above the folded crest The Channel's leaden line ; And here the sea-fogs lap and cling, And here, each...herbage tells Which way the season flies — Only our close-bit thyme that smells Like dawn in Paradise. Here through the strong and shadeless days The tinkling... | |
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