 | Sunlight - English poetry - 1883 - 210 pages
...There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in...pass ; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd ev - ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies Here are... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1883 - 740 pages
...that softer falls [grass, Than petals from blown roses on the Or night-dews on still waters between Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass ; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes : Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are... | |
 | Stella Austin - 1883 - 282 pages
...sorrow-stricken, which were bending so pitifully over himself and his brother. CHAPTER XII. RAY'S SONG AGAIN. "Music, that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes." TV /T R. Forrest was an early riser when the beauty ^ •*• of the morning tempted him. Upon the... | |
 | Education - 1884 - 708 pages
...softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night dews on still waters between wills Of shadowy granite in a gleaming pass ; Music that...spirit lies Than tired eye-lids upon tired eyes.'— TENNYSON. (a) Name the prepositions in the above, and show between what nouns each preposition shows... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1884 - 340 pages
...THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in...pass ; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1884 - 136 pages
...is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night -dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in...pass ; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1884 - 582 pages
...There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass ; Music that gentler on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...no longer roam." CHORIC SONG i Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy... | |
 | Ralph Tyler Flewelling - Personalism - 1920 - 504 pages
...repeated assaults that the battered ear begins to yearn for a saving measure, suave and Lydian, — for "Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, than tired eyelids upon tired eyes." Lack of modulation, of repose to alternate with climax, seems to be the chief defect of this concentrated... | |
 | W. W. Robson, William Wallace Robson - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 288 pages
...onomatopoeia, the mysterious matching of sound to sense, is a more general quality of poetry. I would call Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes (from "The Lotos-Eaters') onomatopoeic, for it is the soothing effect of music, not the actual sound,... | |
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music... 
