 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...round its chords Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide — Those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the tune all our sheep know, As,...Where the long grasses stifle the water Within the stream 's bed : How one after one seeks its lodging, As star follows star Into eve and the blue far... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...round its chords Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide — those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as,...star follows star Into eve and the blue far above us, — so blue and so far ! 6. — Then the tune, for which quails on the cornland will each leave... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1856 - 686 pages
...twine round its chords Lest they snap neath the stress of the noontide — those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as,...star follows star Into eve and the blue far above us, — so blue and so far ! Numerous passages, too, it contains of that rich picturesque genre which... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1856 - 684 pages
...round its chords Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide — those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as,...one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door, tffl folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed "Wbere the long... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 872 pages
...Where shall one turn for verse to excel the pastoral effect of the following lines from ' Saul ' ? And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as,...star follows star Into eve and the blue far above us — so blue and so far ! How perfect ! The very movement of a flock of sheep has been caught, and... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...round its chords Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide — those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as,...star follows star Into eve and the blue far above us, — so blue and so far! vt — Then the tune, for which quails on the cornland will each leave... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 436 pages
...round its chords Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide — Those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the tune all our sheep know, As,...long grasses stifle the water Within the stream's bed : How one after one seeks its lodging, As star follows star Into eve and the blue far above us, Then... | |
 | Acrostics - 1866 - 280 pages
...who ruled In Coventry." 6. " A little child, scarce eight years old, And she was crowned a Queen." 6. "They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo,...long grasses stifle the water within the stream's bed ; Y And now one afler one seeks his lodging, as star follows star Into eve and the blue sky above us.... | |
 | 1867 - 832 pages
...tells, in the same glorious rushing rhythm, how David poured from his harp " first the tune all the sheep know as, one after one, so docile they come to the pen-door," then the " help-tune of the reapers, their wine-song, when hand presses hand, and eye quickens eye... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...round its chords Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide — those sunbeams like swords ! And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as,...star follows star Into eve and the blue far above us, — so blue and so far ! VI. • — Then the tune, for which quails on the cornland will each... | |
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And I first played the tune all our sheep know, as, one after one, So docile they come to the pen-door till folding be done. They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed Where the long grasses stifle the water within the stream's bed;... 
