 | Henry Alford - Greek poetry - 1841 - 272 pages
...In the red West; through mountain clefts the dale Was seen far inland, and the yellow down Bordered with palm, and many a winding vale And meadow, set...slender galingale;— A land where all things always seemed the same! And round about the keel, with faces pale, Dark faces pale against that rosy flame,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...above the woven copse. m. The charmed sunset linger'd low adown In the red West : thro" mountain clefts the dale Was seen far inland, and the yellow down...flame, The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came. IT. Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 276 pages
...In the red West: through mountain clefts the dale Was seen far inland, and the yellow down Bordered with palm, and many a winding vale And meadow, set...slender galingale; A land where all things always seemed the same! And round about the keel with faces pale, Dark faces pale against that rosy flame,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pages
...In the red West : through mountain clefts the dale Was seen far inland, and the yellow down Bordered with palm, and many a winding vale And meadow, set...slender galingale ; A land where all things always seemed the same ! And round about the keel with faces pale, Dark faces pale against that rosy flame,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 284 pages
...many a winding vale And meadow, set with slender galingale ; A land where all things always seemed the same ! And round about the keel with faces pale, Dark faces pale against that rosy flame, The miltl-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came. nr. Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1855 - 520 pages
...above the woven copse. " The charmed sunset linger'd low adown In the red West: thro' mountain clefts the dale Was seen far inland, and the yellow down...flame, The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came." If he were a painter, we should say he had Claude's power of steeping a landscape with his own sentiment,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1855 - 522 pages
...In the red West : thro' mountain clefts the dale Was seen far inland, and the yellow down Border 'd with palm, and many a winding vale And meadow, set...flame, The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came." If he were a painter, we should say he had Claud's power of steeping a landscape with his own sentiment,... | |
 | American essays - 1871 - 776 pages
...land " where " Through mountain clefts the dale i Was seen far inland, and the yellow down Bordered with palm, and many a winding vale And meadow, set with slender galiugale." All this, except the landscape, is after Homer, from the ninth book of the Odyssey. The... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - Bookbinding - 1860 - 576 pages
...above the woven copse. The charmed sunset linger'd low adown In the red West : through mountain-clefts the dale Was seen far inland, and the yellow down...flame, The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came." If he were a painter, we should say he had Claude's power of steeping a landscape with his own sentiment,... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - Bookbinding - 1860 - 546 pages
...woven copse. In the red West: through mountain-clefts the dale The charmed sunset linger'd low adown Was seen far inland, and the yellow down Border'd...flame, The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came." Tennyson cannot be said to be a great master of rhythm. Verse is plastic in his hands : he can shape... | |
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Lotus-eaters came. Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them... 
