 Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying...  Dust and Destiny: Fifteen Sermons - Page 152by Merton Stacher Rice - 1921 - 258 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...Clanging fights, and naming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation... | |
 | Christianity - 1842 - 740 pages
...the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. Bat they smile, they find a music centred in a... | |
 | Robert Gordon LATHAM - 1843 - 236 pages
...the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world ; Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...Clanging fights, and naming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands.— Surely, surely slumber is more sweet than toil; the shore, Than labour in the deep... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - English language - 1843 - 236 pages
...the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world ; Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. — Surely, surely slumber is more sweet than... | |
 | Christianity - 1843 - 744 pages
...Latin may correspond to English, we may refer our readers to another passage from the same poem:— " Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a... | |
 | Alfred Barry - Philosophy - 1848 - 374 pages
...the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging iights, and ilaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands — But they smile." Oh, place for... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - England - 1850 - 398 pages
...the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world. There they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands^ Blight...roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music, centred in... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 276 pages
...the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world; Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a... | |
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