ON THE SEA It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. Often 'tis in such gentle temper found, That scarcely will the very... Calendar - Page 513by University of Calcutta - 1908Full view - About this book
| American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...but they are too long to quote. We must close our extracts with a grand and subtle sonnet ON THE SEA. "It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores,...will the very smallest shell Be moved for days from where it sometime fell, When last the winds of heaven were unbound. Oh, ye who have your eyeballs vexed... | |
| Literature - 1910 - 862 pages
...could be named. There are days on which it Is like a millpond. Of it the poet might have written: — Often 'tis in such gentle temper found That scarcely...shell Be moved for days from whence It sometime fell. Then it gives way to a sudden fit of rage, behaving like a maniac. The gale conies screaming out of... | |
| Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 324 pages
...grass, as those whose sobbings Were heard of none beside the mournful robins. V. ON THE SEA. Aug. 1817. IT keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores,...will the very smallest shell Be moved for days from where it sometime fell, When last the winds of heaven were unbound. Oh ye ! who have your eye-balls... | |
| John Keats - Poets, English - 1848 - 414 pages
...grass, as those whose sobbings Were heard of none beside the mournful robins. Feb. 1817. V. ON THE SEA. IT keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores,...will the very smallest shell Be moved for days from where it sometime fell, When last the winds of heaven were unbound. Oh ye ! who have your eye-balls... | |
| English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...they are too long to quote. We must close our extracts with a grand and subtle sonnet ON THE SEA. " It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores,...will the very smallest shell Be moved for days from where it sometime fell, When last the winds of heaven were unbound. Oh, ye who have your eyeballs vexed... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 588 pages
...they are too long to quote. We must close our extracts with a grand and subtle sonnet. ON THE SEA. " It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores,...will the very smallest shell Be moved for days from where it sometime fell, When last the winds of heaven were unbound. Oh, ye who have your eyeballs vexed... | |
| 1849 - 588 pages
...they are too long to quote. We must close our extracts with a grand and subtle sonnet ON THE 6EA. " It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores,...Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. Often 4\sm eucb gei\V\e temcer found, 158 159 That scarcely will the very smallest shell Be moved for days... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 234 pages
...and oft shall Memory tell Of this brief thoughtful hour of musing by the sea. JG WHITHER. THE SEA. IT keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores,...will the very smallest shell Be moved for days from where it sometime fell, When last the winds of heaven were unbound. Oh, ye who have your eyeballs vexed... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 pages
...and oft shall Memory tell Of this brief thoughtful hour of musing by the sea. JG WBITTIER. THE SEA. IT keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores,...will the very smallest shell Be moved for days from where it sometime fell, When last the winds of heaven were unbound. Oh, ye who have your eyeballs vexed... | |
| American essays - 1883 - 884 pages
...characterization of The Big Pond, given it by one who is frequently with me upon the beach. " Often 't is in such gentle temper found That scarcely will the very smallest shell Bo moved for days from where it some time fell When last the winds of heaven were unbound." At evening,... | |
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