 And here had fall'na great part of a tower, Whole, like a crag that tumbles from the cliff, And like a crag was gay with wilding flowers : And high above a piece of turret stair, Worn by the feet that now were silent, wound Bare to the sun, and monstrous...  Idylls of the King - Page 20by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1915 - 862 pages
..."lEmpty trunks o'erflourished by the devil " (" Twelfth Night," II. iv. 404). monstrous ivy-stems Claspt the gray walls with hairy-fibred arms, And suck'd...look'd, A knot, beneath, of snakes, aloft, a grove. And the following stanza is almost equally elaborate: — Enormous elm-tree-boles did stoop and lean Upon... | |
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...closely the next footsteps of the prince, be arrested like him, . and listen to the same enchantment : " And while he waited in the castle court, The voice of Enid, Yniol's daughter, rang Clear through the open casement of the hall, Singing ; and as the sweet voice of a bird Heard by the lander... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1859 - 256 pages
...ivy-stems Claspt the gray walls with hairy-fibred arms, And sucked the joining of the stones, and looked A knot, beneath, of snakes, aloft, a grove. And while...court, The voice of Enid, Yniol's daughter, rang Clear through the open casement of the Hall, Singing ; and as the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander... | |
 | 1859 - 914 pages
...stair, Worn by the feet that now were silent, wound Bare to the sun, and monstrous ivy-stems Claspt the gray walls with hairy-fibred arms, And suck'd...look'd A knot, beneath, of snakes, aloft, a grove." The succeeding passage is one of the most beautiful in the volume, and the song with which our extract... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 588 pages
...stair, Worn by the feet that now were silent, wound Bare to the sun; and monstrous ivy stems Clasp'd the gray walls with hairy-fibred arms, And suck'd...look'd A knot, beneath, of snakes, aloft, a grove. Through an open casement Geraint hears the song of Enid, Yniol's only child: And as the sweet voice... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 586 pages
...stair, Worn by the feet that now were silent, wound Bare to the sun, and monstrous ivy stems Clasp'd_the gray walls with hairy-fibred arms, And suck'd the...look'd A knot, beneath, of snakes, aloft, a grove.' Geraint, while yet in the castle court, hears Enid, daughter of Earl Yniol, singing, • And as the... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1860 - 720 pages
...stems Claspt the gray walls with hairy-fibred arms, And sacked the joining of the stones, and looked A knot, beneath, of snakes, aloft, a grove. And while...court, The voice of Enid, Yniol's daughter, rang Clear through the open casement of the hall, Singing; and as the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...footsteps of the prince, be arrested like him, and listen to the same enchantment : " And while ho waited in the castle court, The voice of Enid, Yniol's daughter, rang Clear through the open casement of the hall, Singing ; and as the sweet voice of a bird Heard by the lander... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...stair, Worn by the feet that now were silent, wound Bare te the sun, and monstrous ivy-stems Claspt the gray walls with hairy-fibred arms, And suck'd...voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle, VOL. ii. 14 Moves him to think what kind of bird it is That sings so delicately clear, and make Conjecture... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...stair, Worn by the feet that now were silent, wound Bare to the sun, and monstrous ivy-stems Claspt the gray walls with hairy-fibred arms, And suc-k'd...voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle, VOL. II. 14 Moves him to think what kind of bird it is Tbat sings so delicately clear, and make Conjecture... | |
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