 For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; I leard...  Poems - Pagina 103door Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 231 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1872 - 1120 pagina’s
...eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonders that would be ; Saw the havens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down their costly bales ; Heard the Heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the... | |
 | 1842 - 788 pagina’s
...prefer a small specimen of his more indistinct and wider notions : — ' Can I but relive in sadness ? I will turn that earlier page. Hide me from my deep...and all the wonder that would be'; Saw the heavens fill'd with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 558 pagina’s
...: — ' Can I but relive in sadness? I will turn that earlier page. Hide me from my deep emotion, 0 thou wondrous Mother-Age! Make me feel the wild pulsation...and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill'd with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly... | |
 | 1867 - 796 pagina’s
...culture kiss each other. Again, when our greatest living poet " dips into the future" what does he see? " The heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales." Why, it might be the vision of a young general merchant. I doubt whether anything similar could be... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pagina’s
...sadness ? I will turn that earlier page. Hide me from my deep emotion, O thou wondrous Mother- Age ! Make me feel the wild pulsation that I felt before...of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 566 pagina’s
...eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that could be : Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of...dropping down with costly bales : Heard .the heavens filled with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nation's airy navies grappling in the... | |
 | William John Dawson - 1848 - 1186 pagina’s
...world and nil, the wonder thut would be ; Saw tilt- henvens fill with commerce, argosies of miigic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heuvens fill with shouting, and there ruined a ghastly dew From the nation's niry nuvies grappling... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 470 pagina’s
...despairing land and a happy augury for the future. CHAPTER X. MODERN UTOPIAS. PROLOGUE OF QUOTATIONS. " Men, my brothers, men, the workers ever reaping something...and all the wonder that would be.— Saw the heavens flit with commerce, argosies of magic sails, : Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly... | |
 | F. A. Wilson, Alfred Bate Richards - 1850 - 610 pagina’s
...eye could see, Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails ; Pilots of...the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer and the battle flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 506 pagina’s
...despairing land, and a happy augury for the future. CHAPTER X. MODERN UTOPIAS. PROLOGUE OF QUOTATIONS. " MEN, my brothers, men, the workers ever reaping something...the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales; Lo I the war drums throb no longer, and the battle flags are furled. In the parliament of man, the... | |
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