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; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical ... - Page 1221855Full view - About this book
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands,...roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and naming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a... | |
| Robert Gordon Latham - English language - 1843 - 236 pages
...nectar, and their bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. — Surely, surely slumber is more sweet than toil ; the shore, Than labour in the deep mid-ocean,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient... | |
| Robert Gordon LATHAM - 1843 - 236 pages
...nectar, and their bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and naming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands.— Surely, surely slumber is more sweet than toil;... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Par below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 252 pages
...lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands,...flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient... | |
| Alfred Barry - Philosophy - 1848 - 374 pages
...their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging iights, and ilaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands — But they smile." Oh, place for... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1850 - 312 pages
...and the clouds are lightly curled Bound their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world. There they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music, centred in a doleful song, Steaming -up, a lamentation, and an ancient... | |
| Women's periodicals, English - 1861 - 372 pages
...their nectar, and the bolts an hurled Far below them In the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands. • * * • • But they -mile, they find a music centred in s doleful song." 210 211 brings inevitable... | |
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