 Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white ; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk ; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font : The fire-fly wakens : waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3921849Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. " Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me....dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me." I heard her turn the page ; she found a small Sweet Idyl, and once more, as low, she read : " Come... | |
 | 1854 - 778 pages
...on a river floating, She floats upon the river of his thoughts." Spanish Student, Act II. Sc. 3. 11 Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips...dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me." Princess, Part vii. Wordsworth and Keble : " A book, upon whose leaves some chosen plants By his own... | |
 | 1854 - 816 pages
...answered Mr. Longfellow's purpose equally well. But is it so with Tennyson? " Xow folds the lily all licr sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake...dearest thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me." Can anything be more beautiful ? Here is an entirely different attribute of the water-lily discussed,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 pages
...river floating, She floats upou the river of his thoughts." Spanish Student, Act 2, Sc. 3. [Tennyson.] "Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake." Princess, pt. 7. There is a resemblance in the following lines from Wordsworth and Keble. " A book,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 pages
...river floating, She floats upon the river of his thoughts." Spanish Student, Act 2, Sc. 3. [Tennyson.] "Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake." Princess, pt. 7. There is a resemblance in the following lines from Wordsworth and Keble. "A book,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 pages
...floating, She floats upon the river of his thoughts." Spanish Student, Jlct 2, Sc. 3. [Tennyson.] " Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake." Princess, pt. 7. There is a resemblance in the following lines from Wordsworth and Keble. " A book,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 378 pages
...river floating, She floats upon the river of his thoughts." Spanish Student, Act 2, Sc. 3. [Tennyson.} "Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of th» lake." Princess, pt. 7. There is a resemblance in the following lines from Wordsworth and Keble.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1848 - 188 pages
...milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me....thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and he ost in me.' I heard her turn the page; she found a small Sweet Idyl, and once more, as low, she... | |
 | Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 744 pages
...heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thought in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And...dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me." By-and-by they come to an ex planation. He makes an admirable confession of his faith, and a more admirable... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 pages
...like a bird. Tennyson has a very lovely image of the water-lily folding itself with the closing day : Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips...dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom, and be lost in me. But we cannot afford to forego this simile of Mr Smith's because the image has been used before : By... | |
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