 Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height : What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang) In height and cold, the splendour of the hills ? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted Pine, To sit a star...  The Quarterly review - Page 4511848Full view - About this book
 | 1881 - 622 pages
...it. Here is another example of the poet's manner, on which we shall dwell somewhat more at length. ' Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height : What...hills? But cease to move so near the heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted pine, To sit a star upon the sparkling spire ; And come, for... | |
 | England - 1861 - 814 pages
...summit of this high social philosophy, in vain, we fear, would the appeal be made — " Come down, 0 maid, from yonder mountain height ; What pleasure...splendour of the hills ? But cease to move so near tho heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted pine, To sit a star upon the sparkling spire... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1848 - 180 pages
...me.' I heard her turn the page ; she found a small Sweet Idyl, and once more, as low, she read : ' Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height : What...hills? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunheam by the blasted Pine, To sit a star upon the sparkling spire ; And come, for... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...' " There is silence. Again she opens the volume, and reads the following Idyl (pp. 151—153):— "'Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height :...height (the shepherd sang)— In height and cold, the splendor of the hills? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1850 - 604 pages
...silence. Again she opens the volume, and reads the following Idyl (pp. 151—153):— " ' Come down, О maid, from yonder mountain height : What pleasure...height (the shepherd sang) — In height and cold, the splendor of the hills? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 290 pages
...her turn the .page ; she found a small Sweet Idyl, and once more, as low, she read: " Come down, oh maid, from yonder mountain height: What pleasure lives...height, (the shepherd sang,) In height and cold, the splendor of the hills ? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 300 pages
...her turn the page ; she found a small Sweet Idyl, and once more, as low, she read : " Come down, oh maid, from yonder mountain height : What pleasure...height, (the shepherd sang,) In height and cold, the splendor of the hills ? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the... | |
 | George William Curtis - Atlantic States - 1852 - 214 pages
...the valley. Do you remember in Tennyson's " Princess," the " small, sweet Idyl" which she read ? " Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height; What...hills ? But cease to move so near the heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted pine, To sit a star upon the sparkling spire, And come, for... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...her turn the page ; she found a small Sweet Idyl, and once more, as low, she read : " Come down, oh maid, from yonder mountain height : What pleasure...height, (the shepherd sang,) In height and cold, the splendor of the hills ? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the... | |
 | Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1854 - 486 pages
...EXERCISE II. Passage from TENNYSON'S " Princess." Come down, 0 Maid, from yonder mountain-height ! What pleasure lives in height, (the shepherd sang),...hills ? But cease to move so near the heavens, and cease To glide a sun-beam by the blasted pine, To sit a star upon the sparkling spire : And come —... | |
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