 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 402 pages
...have bought A mansion incorruptible. / , 2.' Would they could have stayed with us ! THE DYING SWAN. I. THE plain was grassy, wild and bare, Wide, wild, and...built up everywhere An under-roof of doleful gray. With an inner voice the river ran, Adown it floated a dying swan, And loudly did lament. It was the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 456 pages
...bought A mansion incorruptible. Would they could have stayed with us ! 35 THE DYING SWAN. ' I ""HE plain was grassy, wild and bare, *- Wide, wild, and...built up everywhere An under-roof of doleful gray. With an inner voice the river ran, Adown it floated a dying swan, And loudly did lament. It was the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...city — have bought A mansion incorruptible. Would they could have stayed - with us I THE DYING SWAN. THE plain was grassy, wild and bare, Wide, wild, and...built up everywhere An under-roof of doleful gray. With an inner voice the river ran, Adown it floated a dying swan, And loudly did lament. It was the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...have bought A mansion incorruptible. Would they could have stayed with и • : TUE DYING SWAN. TDK plain was grassy, wild and bare, Wide, wild, and open to the air, Which had built up everywhere An umler-nmf of doleful gray. With an inner voice the river ran, Adowu it floated a dying swau, And loudly... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1873 - 434 pages
...and is applicable to any treeless flat. It is like the opening sketch in "The Dying Swan : "— '' The plain was grassy, wild and bare, Wide, wild, and...Which had built up everywhere An under-roof of doleful grey." But this is made rather more definite in character by the distance, which is well put in, and... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1873 - 440 pages
...and is applicable to any treeless flat. It is like the opening sketch in " The Dying Swan : " — ' ' The plain was grassy, wild and bare, Wide, wild, and...air, Which had built up everywhere An under-roof of dolelul grey." But this is made rather more definite in character by the distance, which is well put... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1873 - 448 pages
...what were the lines you were thinking of ? " "These: — ' The plain was grassy, wild and bare, WWe, wild, and open to the air, Which had built up everywhere An nnder-roof of doleful grey. It was the middle of the day; Even the weary wind went on, And took the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1874 - 186 pages
...city — have bought A mansion incorruptible. Would they could have stayed with us ! THE DYING SWAN. THE plain was grassy, wild and bare, Wide, wild, and...built up everywhere An under-roof of doleful gray. With an inner voice the river ran, Adown it floated a dying swan, And loudly did lament. It was the... | |
 | 1874 - 752 pages
...be recognized as Lincolnshire under its least cheerful aspect, when the east wind prevails ; — " The plain was grassy, wild, and bare, Wide, wild,...built up everywhere An under-roof of doleful gray." The desolate feeling called forth here is kept up in the closing lines of the poem — lines of matchless... | |
 | Elizabeth Wood Kane - 1874 - 178 pages
...the rime off the glass ; on the other, the plain spread out as . on the last afternoon's journey, — "Wild and bare, Wide, wild, and open to the air, Which...built up everywhere An under-roof of doleful gray." 56 There were no more teams for the Nevada mines in sight. Far ahead of us a light cloud of dust indicated... | |
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THE plain was grassy, wild and bare, Wide, wild, and open to the air, Which had built up everywhere An under-roof of doleful gray. With an inner voice the river ran, Adown it floated a dying swan, And loudly did lament. It was the middle of the day. Ever... 
