Sometimes on lonely mountain-meres I find a magic bark; I leap on board : no helmsman steers : I float till all is dark. A gentle sound, an awful light! Three angels bear the holy Grail : With folded feet, in stoles of white, On sleeping wings they sail. The Hibernian Magazine. ... - Page 1691864Full view - About this book
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - British literature - 1898 - 920 pages
...mountain-meres I find a magic bark. I leap 01: board; no helmsman steers; I float till all is daik. ^ A gentle sound, an awful light ! Three angels bear...blood of God ! My spirit beats her mortal bars, As dow:i dark tides the glor> slides, And starlike mingles with the stars. When on my goodly charger borne... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - British literature - 1898 - 916 pages
...mountain-meres I find a magic bark. I leap on board; no helmsman steers; I float till all is dark. 40 with such passion that the tear She sang of shook...fell, an erring pearl Lost in her bosom; but I My spirit beats her mortal bars, As down dark tides the glory slides, And starlike mingles with the... | |
| William Archer - English drama - 1896 - 504 pages
...the sort. An artist-machinist might surely have found inspiration in that verse of Tennyson's: — " A gentle sound, an awful light ! Three angels bear...in stoles of white, On sleeping wings they sail." Or, if it come not within the powers of the modern stage to realise such a picture, it might at least... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 928 pages
...I leap 01: board; no helmsman steers; I float till all is dark. 40 A gentle sound, an awful light 1 Three angels bear the Holy Grail; With folded feet,...white, On sleeping wings they sail. Ah, blessed vision I blood of God I My spirit beats her mortal bars, As down dark tides the glory slides, And starlike... | |
| Charles Kingsley - English literature - 1899 - 430 pages
...can prove to you that it is noble?" And tapping impatiently with her foot, she went on to herself: " A gentle sound, an awful light ! Three angels bear...wings they sail. Ah, blessed vision ! blood of God ! The spirit beats her mortal bars, As down dark tides the glory slides, And star-like mingles with... | |
| Edwin Herbert Lewis - American literature - 1899 - 440 pages
...mountain-meres I find a magic bark ; I leap on board : no helmsman steers : I float till all is dark. 40 A gentle sound, an awful light! Three angels bear...wings they sail. Ah, blessed vision ! blood of God ! 45 My spirit beats her mortal bars, As down dark tides the glory slides, And star-like mingles with... | |
| English poetry - 1899 - 788 pages
...between. Sometimes on lonely mountain-meres I find a magic bark; I leap on board : no helmsman steers : 40 I float till all is dark. A gentle sound, an awful...feet, in stoles of white, On sleeping wings they sail. , 45 Oh, blessed vision ! blood of God ! My spirit beats her mortal bars, As down dark tides the glory... | |
| Albert Franklin Blaisdell - American literature - 1899 - 460 pages
...mountain meres I find a magic bark; I leap on board ; no helmsman steers ; I float till all is dark. 40 A gentle sound, an awful light ! Three angels bear...wings they sail. Ah, blessed vision ! blood of God ! 45 My spirit beats her mortal bars, As down dark tides the glory slides, And starlike mingles with... | |
| Harry Pratt Judson, Ida Catherine Bender, Ida C. Bender - Readers - 1900 - 530 pages
...chants resound between. Sometimes on lonely mountain meres I find a magic bark ; s I leap on board : no helmsman steers : I float till all is dark. A gentle...Holy Grail : With folded feet, in stoles of white, 10 On sleeping wings they sail. Ah, blessed vision ! blood of God ! My spirit beats her mortal bars,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 274 pages
...interpretative reference in The Princess (I. 232-234) to Again, take these lines from Sir Galahad, — A gentle sound, an awful light ! Three angels bear...feet, in stoles of white, On sleeping wings they sail. First, in folded, the feet are signified as in the reposeful posture paralleled in "folded arms." In... | |
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