 | 1913 - 880 pages
...fine poems, like music, so often do; and the experience is made a vision by the last beautiful stanza: "The day Is done: the tired land looks for night:...clear sky Lifts o'er the firs her shining shield, And In her tranquil light Sleep falls on forest and field. See! sleep hath fallen: the trees are asleep:... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1912 - 510 pages
...summer that lie on the ground ! What havoc ! The laughing timbrels of June, That curtained the birds' cradles, and screened their song, That sheltered the...clear sky Lifts o'er the firs her shining shield, And in her tranquil light Sleep falls on forest and field. Se'e! sleep hath fallen : the trees are... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1913 - 658 pages
...poems, like music, so often do ; and the experience is made a vision by the last beautiful stanza : ' The day is done : the tired land looks for night :...clear sky Lifts o'er the firs her shining shield, And in her tranquil light Sleep falls on forest and field. See ! sleep hath fallen : the trees are... | |
 | Francis Brett Young - 1914 - 246 pages
...beechen moss And holly sheen : the oak silver and stark Sunneth his aged bark And wrinkled boss. 82 Or Of airy fans the delicate throng — Torn and scattered...year's flaunting crown Shattered and trampled down. Though the whole problem which exercised Ruskin and his critics is to a certain extent self-resolved... | |
 | Maud Cuney-Hare - 1918 - 218 pages
...summer that lie on the ground ! What havoc ! The laughing timbrels of June, That curtained the birds' cradles, and screened their song, That sheltered the...clear sky Lifts o'er the firs her shining shield, And in her tranquil light Sleep falls on forest and field. See ! sleep hath fallen : the trees are... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1922 - 472 pages
...more fully, and his pen seems to linger lovingly over the sentences as he tells of the end of day : The day is done : the tired land looks for night:...clear sky Lifts o'er the firs her shining shield, And in her tranquil light Sleep falls on forest and on field. See ! Sleep hath fallen : the trees are... | |
 | William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein - 2007 - 560 pages
...Appendix F 311 In the grassy pools of the flood they sink and drown, Green-golden, orange, vermillion, golden and brown, The high year's flaunting crown,...the clear sky Lifts o'er the firs her shining shield And in her tranquil light Sleep falls on forest and field. See! sleep hath fallen; the trees are asleep;... | |
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In grassy pools of the flood they sink and drown, Green-golden, orange, vermilion, golden and brown, The high year's flaunting crown Shattered and trampled down. The day is done : the tired land looks for night: She prays to the night to keep In peace... 