...breaking through white mists, and capped with dark slate-coloured clouds. Like Tennyson's Ida, it was " Lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The...loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow ledges, midway down, Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook, falling...

...anybody may find beautiful illustrations of them, who will observe in a mountainous district how — " The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts...creeps from pine to pine, And loiters slowly drawn."* or how " The light cloud smoulders on the summer crag." f recollecting that the phrase " Rauchen der...

...opening of "QEnone" is a good example, and is a fine prelude to love's delirium, which follows it. " There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys...vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm aud creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges...

...remarkable how the dominant stillness is here also made to invade everything. Nature is subdued by it : " The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts...creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn." CEnone herself is subject to its control : " round her neck Floated her hair, or seemed to float in...

...all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm aud creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn....either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Haug rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract...

...composition that has ever appeared in English poetry. And now compare all the three with each other : — There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapor slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly...

...CEnone" is a good example, and is a fine prelude to love's delirium, which follows it. " There lies « vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart (he glen, Puts forth an arm and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand...

...breaks in a patch of undergrowth half-way down, with a monotonous droning. A half-transparent mist-clond Puts forth an arm and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters slowly down ; and you wake to hear yourself saying, " It's just like a Chinese picture." Through the round...

...opening of "CEnone" is a good example, and is a fine prelude to love's delirium, which follows it. " There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian lulls. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm and creeps from pine to pine,...

...the shadow (if the vine branches Floated the glowing sunlight, as she moved." " The swimming vapor slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn." * » ' • • * " Behind the valley topmost Gargarus Stands up and takes the morning." * * • * *...