 O bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on the lawn: Or in the all-golden afternoon A guest, or happy sister, sung, Or here she brought the harp and flung A ballad to the brightening...  The Book Buyer - Page 321900Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...tumbled half the mellowing pears ! O bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him, as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on...the harp and flung A ballad to the brightening moon : Nor less it pleased in livelier moods, Beyond the bounding hill to stray, And break the livelong... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...tumbled half the mellowing pears ! 0 bliss, when all in cirole drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him, as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on...harp and flung A ballad to the brightening moon," The " happy sister " was to have been the bond of their love. How beautifully this is told, and how... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...tumbled half the mellowing pears ! 0 bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him, as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on...the harp and flung A ballad to the brightening moon : Nor less it pleased in livelier moods, Beyond the bounding hill to stray, And break the livelong... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...tumbled half the mellowing pears ! 0 bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him, as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on...harp and flung A ballad to the brightening moon," The " happy sister " was to have been the bond of their love. How beautifully this is told, and how... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 550 pages
...tumbled half the mellowing pears ! O bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him, as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on...harp and flung A ballad to the brightening moon." The " happy sister " was to have been the bond of their love. How beautifully this is told, and how... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...tumbled half the mellowing pears ! 0 bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him, as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on...the harp and flung A ballad to the brightening moon : Nor less it pleased in livelier moods, Beyond the bounding hill to stray, And break the livelong... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...tumbled half the mellowing pears ! O bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him, as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on...the harp and flung A ballad to the brightening moon : Nor less it pleased in livelier moods, Beyond the bounding hill to stray, And break the livelong... | |
 | Uriah Clark - 1852 - 170 pages
...dramatic author and student who were present. Since his departure, a dear friend, who often used ' To hear him, as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on the lawn,' has sent, begging of me, as a memorial, that favorite old copy of Shakspeare George always had by his... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - Books and reading - 1855 - 232 pages
...it might be written : — " Oh, bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed, To hear him, as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on the lawn." We overlook Richardson reading a chapter of a new novel to a select circle in his grotto ; and Sterne... | |
 | Catherine Marsh - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1856 - 340 pages
...together, or he read to them from his favourite authors. But their music was his chief enjoyment:— " When in the all-golden afternoon A guest or happy sister...the harp and flung A ballad to the brightening moon. Nor less it pleased in livelier mood Beyond the bounding hills to stray, And break the livelong summer... | |
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