 | Edward Rae - Africa, North - 1877 - 394 pages
...faces pale — Dark faces pale against that rosy flame — The mild-eyed, melancholy Lotos Eaters came. They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the...shore ; And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland, Of w'fe and child, and slave — but evermore Most weary seemed the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering... | |
 | Julia Constance Fletcher - 1877 - 286 pages
...there? I was so sleepy and startled it never occurred to me to make a noise. I lay still and waited: "They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the sun and moon, upon the shore," the voice went on, quoting, I am bound to say, with a great deal of expression •' 'I'm beginning... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1878 - 688 pages
...seen far inland, and the yellow down Border'd with palm, and many a winding vale Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering fields of barren foam. Then some one said, ' We will return no more ; ' And all at once they... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd yet all awake. And music in his ears his beating heart did make. They sat them down upon the yellow sand Between the...shore ; And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland. Of child, and wife, and slave : but evermore Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1879 - 236 pages
...grave; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make. They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the...shore ; And sweet it was to dream of Father-land, Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, 35 And music in his ears his beating heart did make. They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the...shore ; And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland, Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore 40 Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, "Weary the wandering... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...And deep-asleep he seemed, yet all awake, 35. And music in his ears his beating heart did make. v. They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the...shore; And sweet it was to dream of Father-land, Of child and wife, and slave; but evermore 40 Most weary seemed the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1879 - 578 pages
...that some of the phenomena which he described were to be seen there. In the Lotos-eaten he said : — 'They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the sun and moon, upon the shore.' He believed that was possible, and possible only in the fen country, where, owing to the utter absence... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make. They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the...shore ; And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland, Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...grave ; And deep asleep he seemed, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make. T. They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the...shore; And sweet it was to dream of Father-land, Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore Most weary seemed the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering... | |
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We will return no more;" And all at once they sang, "Our island home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam. 
