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 ; Heard... Littell's Living Age - Page 2371862Full view - About this book
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...future, far as human eye could see, Sair the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic...nations' airy navies, grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples... | |
| 1872 - 610 pages
...look at things from the stand-point of the swain in ' Locksley Hall,' who ' Heard the heavens filled with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From...nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; ' that the rapid and varied progress of naval invention dazzles, and appears to baffle us, whichever... | |
| Naval art and science - 1872 - 1120 pages
...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... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...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...; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide... | |
| 1842 - 788 pages
...could see — Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be'; Saw the heavens fill'd with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of...; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...twilight, dropping down with -costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...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...; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide... | |
| Theology - 1843 - 424 pages
...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...; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide... | |
| American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...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... | |
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