That stung the sense like wine, Or fell more soft than dew or snow by night, Or wailed as in some flooded cave Sobs the strong broken spirit of a wave. The Living Age - Side 5911926Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 sider
...pictures one may apply his own exquisite phrases on certain of Victor Hugo's songs, which, he says, " Fell more soft than dew or snow by night, Or wailed...wave." For instance, there is a perfect delicacy and beauty in four lines of the hendecasyllabics — a metre that is familiar in the Latin line often found... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1866 - 370 sider
...fire and rang. Even all men's eyes and ears With fiery sound and tears That stung the sense like wine, Or fell more soft than dew or snow by night, Or wailed...flooded cave Sobs the strong broken spirit of a wave. But we, our master, we Whose hearts, uplift to thee, Ache with the pulse of thy remembered song, We... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1867 - 340 sider
...sound and tears Waxed hot, and cheeks caught flame and eyelids light, At those high songs of thine Or wailed as in some flooded cave Sobs the strong broken spirit of a wave. But we, our master, we Whose hearts, uplift to thee, Ache with the pulse of thy remembered song, We... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1867 - 422 sider
...of thine That stung the sense like wine, Or fell more soft than dew or snow by night, 11 TB; "HiOr wailed as in some flooded cave Sobs the strong broken spirit of a wave. But we, our master, we Whose hearts, uplift to thee, Ache with the pulse of thy remembered song, We... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 376 sider
...cheeks caught flame and eyelids light, At those high songs of thine That stung the sense like wine, Or fell more soft than dew or snow by night, Or wailed...flooded cave Sobs the strong broken spirit of a wave. But we, our master, we Whose hearts, uplift to thee, Ache with the pulse of thy remembered song, We... | |
| 1881 - 456 sider
...cheeks caught flame and eyelids light, At those high songs of thine That stung the sense like wine, Or fell more soft than dew or snow by night. Or wailed...flooded cave Sobs the strong broken spirit of a wave. But we, our master, we Whose hearts, uplift to thee, Ache with the pulse of thy remembered song, We... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1883 - 392 sider
...with the tune men's ears took fire and rang. Even all men's eyes and ears With fiery sound and tears Or fell more soft than dew or snow by night, Or wailed...flooded cave Sobs the strong broken spirit of a wave. But we, our master, we Whose hearts, uplift to thee, Ache with the pulse of thy remembered song, We... | |
| Morgan George Watkins - 1883 - 256 sider
...of the glorious harmonies of nature which a careful observer may always find here, confused somewhat as ' ' In some flooded cave Sobs the strong broken spirit of a wave ; " and dimmed with the mists of absence, and also may be somewhat heightened by treacherous memory... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1884 - 724 sider
...cheeks caught flame and eyelids light, At those high songs of thine That stung the sense like wine, Or fell more soft than dew or snow by night, Or wailed...flooded cave Sobs the strong broken spirit of a wave. But we, our master, we Whose hearts, uplift to thee, Ache with the pulse of thy remembered song, —... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 344 sider
...sound and tears Waxed hot, and cheeks caught flame and eyelids light, At those high songs of thine Or wailed as in some flooded cave Sobs the strong broken spirit of a wave. But we, our master, we Whose hearts, uplift to thee, Ache with the pulse of thy remembered song, We... | |
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