Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying... The Christian Remembrancer - Page 3211843Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| 1879 - 524 pages
...Clangimr fights, and flaming towns, and smkmg shipe, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a umsic centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong. Like a tale of little meaning tho' the words are strong i Chanted from an ill-used race... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1880 - 356 pages
...golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world, Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring...fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and fraying hands. And praying hands. Oh, my friends, is not the question of all questions for such poor... | |
| 1880 - 658 pages
...God may be in very truth our Father, or like the deities in the poet's fable, He " ' May smile, may find a music centred in a doleful song ; Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient cry of wrong.' He may be this or that, but whether of the twain we have little means of knowing. "... | |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1880 - 146 pages
...their nectar, and the clouds are curled, Round their golden houses girdled by the gleaming world ; But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song, Like a tale of little meaning, tho' the words are strong : Chanted from an ill-used race of men that... | |
| Letitia Macclintock, Letitia M'Clintock - 1881 - 332 pages
...written for you,' and she repeated the lines : — They smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring...doleful song ; Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning, tho' the words are strong ! ' And I too,' she continued,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring...doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning tho' the words are strong ; Chanted from an ill-used race... | |
| Frederick Charles Woodhouse - 1881 - 392 pages
...golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring...flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands." " The Unseen Universe." " Greece gave men clear thought, sense of beauty, but Greece has not satisfied... | |
| 1881 - 832 pages
...full of ecclesiastical thunder and dire vaticinations of coming tribulation — They smile in secret, find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning though the words are strong. And somehow or other when... | |
| 1881 - 830 pages
...full of ecclesiastical thunder and dire vaticinations of coming tribulation — They smile in secret, find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning though the words are strong. And somehow or other when... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pages
...golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring...smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steamingup, alamentation andan ancient tttle of wrong. Like a tale of little meaning tho' the words... | |
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