And come, for Love is of the valley, come, For Love is of the valley, come thou down And find him; by the happy threshold, he, Or hand in hand with Plenty in the maize, Or red with spirted purple of the vats, Or foxlike in the vine ; nor cares to walk... The Princess: A Medley - Page 163by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 177 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Kingsley - Literary Collections - 1880 - 448 pages
...perhaps one of the most perfect fruits of the poet's genius) : Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. Who, after three such lines, will talk of English as a harsh and clumsy language, and seek in the effeminate... | |
| Hugh Reginald Haweis - Poetry - 1880 - 354 pages
...some long avenue of odorous limes, like the Trinity Avenue at the Cambridge " backs " in spring, in " The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees." This power of swaying words to the rhythm of poetic sensibility is one of Tennyson's finest enchantments.... | |
| Sidney Lanier - History - 1880 - 338 pages
...beauty depends on their suave syzygy of M-colors, aided by a delicious distribution of vowel-colors : The moan of doves in immemorial elms And murmuring of innumerable bees. Sounds, not Letters, alliterate. 309 CHAPTER XIV. OF ALLITERATION. ALLITERATION occurs where the initial... | |
| Hugh Reginald Haweis - Poetry - 1880 - 356 pages
...some long avenue of odorous limes, like the Trinity Avenue at the Cambridge " backs " in spring, in " The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees." This power of swaying words to the rhythm of poetic sensibility is one of Tennyson's finest enchantments.... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1886 - 312 pages
...ehcpherd is appealing to his lovo to come down from tho mountain height : — " The children cull, und I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter...doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable beos." The tue of the liquid» combined with appropriate rhythm had a very pleasing rlTnct on the mind.... | |
| Edinburgh - 1881 - 552 pages
...upon bronzes and marbles and splendid bindings, and through the open windows floated the sound of " Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan...immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees." He was writing his Memoirs of the Court. Behind his chair stood a little cabinet with seven drawers,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 348 pages
...threshold, he, Or hand in hand with Plenty in the maize, Or red with spirted purple of the vats, On foxlike in the vine ; nor cares to walk With Death...while with shut eyes I lay Listening ; then look'd. Pule was the perfect face ; The bosom with long sighs labor'd ; and meek Seeni'd the full lips, and... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pages
...and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hum-ing thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms,...innumerable bees." So she low-toned ; while with shut eyes l lay Listening ; then look'd. Pale was the perfect face ; The bosom with long sighs labor'd ; and... | |
| English poets - 1883 - 364 pages
...forget these empty courts, And thee returning on thy silver wheels. FROM "THE PRINCESS;" A MEDLEY ' Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height: What...immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.' NORTHERN FARMER OLD STYLE Wheer 'asta bean saw long and mea Hggin' 'ere aloan ? Noorse ? thoort nowt... | |
| English poetry - 1883 - 378 pages
...forget these empty courts, And thee returning on thy silver wheels. FROM "THE PRINCESS;" A MEDLEY ' Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height: What...immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.' NORTHERN FARMER OLD STYLE Wheer 'asta bean saw long and mea liggin' 'ere aloan ? Noorse ? thoort nowt... | |
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