 For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the...  The Canadian Law Times - Page 7411914Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...culture kiss each other. Again, when our greatest living poet " dips into the future" what does he see? " The heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales." Why, it might be the vision of a young general merchant. I doubt whether anything similar could be... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do : . For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...«hall do : For I dipt into the future, far аз human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens...bales: Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do : For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...: Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do : For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide... | |
 | Edward Jesse - Berkshire (England) - 1847 - 430 pages
...as yet unfulfilled, has been maintained and expressed with picturesque force by a later poet : — Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...bales, Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations airy navies grappling in the central blue, Far along the world... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 566 pages
...eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that could be : Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of...dropping down with costly bales : Heard .the heavens filled with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nation's airy navies grappling in the... | |
 | William John Dawson - 1848 - 1186 pages
...world and nil, the wonder thut would be ; Saw tilt- henvens fill with commerce, argosies of miigic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heuvens fill with shouting, and there ruined a ghastly dew From the nation's niry nuvies grappling... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...Visions of the Future. I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens...nations' airy navies, grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1850 - 470 pages
...ever reaping something new; That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do. For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could...and all the wonder that would be.— Saw the heavens flit with commerce, argosies of magic sails, : Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly... | |
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