 WHERE the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles, Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop As they crop — Was the site once of a city great and gay, (So they say) Of our country's...  The Canadian Guide-book - Seite 2051899Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1856 - 430 Seiten
...appear to us to be very well adapted to any. The first stanza is beautiful : Where the quiet-colored end of evening smiles Miles and miles On the solitary...pastures where our sheep Half asleep Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop As they crop — (We have printed this stanza exactly as we find... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 Seiten
...MISCONCEPTIONS 342 ONE WORD MORE. TO EB B 343 MEN AND WOMEN. LOVE AMONG THE RUIXS. 1. WHERE the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop As they crop — 1 Was the site once... | |
 | 1857 - 398 Seiten
...stately march, rarely have it Browning gives a quaint example of it, but it is of peculiar effect: "Where the quiet colored end of evening smiles Miles...pastures where our sheep Half asleep Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop AH they crop." It would be interesting to trace the many and graceful... | |
 | 1857 - 818 Seiten
...stately march, rarely have it. Browning gives a quaint example of it, bat it is of peculiar effect : " Where the quiet colored end of evening smiles Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where oar sheep Half asleep Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop As they crop." It would be... | |
 | 1883 - 884 Seiten
...hour. Here are two clear pictures in half a dozen of Browning's lines : — " Where the quiet-colored end of evening smiles, Miles and miles, On the solitary pastures where the sheep, Half asleep, Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight." "The gray sea and the long black land,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 Seiten
...surpassed, it is by the corresponding description in ' Love among the Ruins ' : Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles Miles and miles On the solitary...homeward through the twilight, stray or stop As they crop . . . And I know, while thus the quiet-coloured eve Smiles to leave To their folding, all our many-tinkling... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 Seiten
...' ' I died, and live for evermore ! " MEN AND WOMEN. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. WHERE the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle homeward through the twilight, stray or stop As they crop — II. Was the site once... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1866 - 120 Seiten
...no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. WHERE the quiet-colored end of evening smiles Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep, Half-asleep, Tinkle homeward through the twilight, stray or stop As they crop, — Was the site once... | |
 | 1868 - 548 Seiten
...originality in question. The first stanza of this poem runs thus : — " 'Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles Miles and miles On the solitary...through the twilight, stray or stop As they crop." This versification shows at once as unusual, and unusual to a purpose. It would be difficult to find... | |
 | 1871 - 314 Seiten
...no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. WHERE the quiet-colored end of evening smiles Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep, Half-asleep, Tinkle homeward through the twilight, stray or stop As they crop, — Was the site once... | |
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