 | English poetry - English poetry - 1865 - 398 pages
...floor, With green and purple sea-weeds strewn ; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown ; I sit upon the sands alone...hope nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around ; i4i3 VERSES. Nor that Content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1865 - 410 pages
...floor, With green and purple sea-weeds strewn ; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown ; I sit upon the sands alone...How sweet ! did any heart now share in my emotion. Nor that Content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found; And walked with inward glory crowned... | |
 | George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - Canterbury (N.Z.) - 1865 - 412 pages
...floor With green and purple seaweeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolv'd in star-showers, thrown ; I sit upon the sands alone,...ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measur'd motion : How sweet, did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas ! I have nor hope nor health,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 pages
...and purple sea-weeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in slur-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning...ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from ita measured motion, How sweet ! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas ! I have nor hope nor... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...floor with green and purple sea-weeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore, like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone,...how sweet ! did any heart now share in my emotion. 5^5 Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, nor peace within nor calm around, nor that content surpassing... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Loneliness - 1867 - 420 pages
..." the melancholy Englishman." In his " Stanzas written in dejection near Naples," occur the lines : I sit upon the sands alone ; The lightning of the...motion, How sweet did any heart now share in my emotion ! One can hardly help recognizing in the following passage of his Julian and Maddolo, a description... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown ; I sit upon the sands alone ; I The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion : EIow sweet! did any heart now share in my -emotion. Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...floor 10 With green and purple sea-weeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone ; The lightning of the noon-tide ocean 15 Is flashing round me. and a tone Arises from its measured motion — ' How sweet, did any heart... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 444 pages
...floor With green and purple sea-weeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown : I sit upon the sands alone...sweet ! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas II have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that Content surpassing wealth The... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 pages
...floor 10 With green and purple sea-weeds strown ; I sec the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone;...hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, 2~> Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned... | |
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The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's. I see the Deep's untrampled floor With green and purple seaweeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the... 
