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" So gladly, from the songs of modern speech Men turn, and see the stars, and feel the free Shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers ; And through the music of the languid hours, They hear like ocean on a western beach The surge and thunder of the... "
A Memorial of O.W. Wight, A.M., M.D.: Sanitarian, Lawyer, and Author - Page 223
by Jarvis Sherman Wight - 1890 - 266 pages
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The Literary World, Volume 10

Literature - 1879 - 360 pages
...Lulled by the song of Circe and her wine In gardens near the pale of Proserpine, Where that /Eaean isle forgets the main, And only the low lutes of love...only shadows of wan lovers pine, As such an one were g'ad to know the brine Salt on his lips, and the large air again, So gladly from the songs of modern...
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The Odyssey, done into Engl. prose by S.H. Butcher and A. Lang

Homerus - 1879 - 518 pages
...SONG pi- CJKCE ANti HEK WINE IN GARDENS NEAR THE PALE OE PROSERPINE, WHERE THAT .4-:/EAN ISLE I-OROETb THE MAIN, AND ONLY THE LOW LUTES OF LOVE COMPLAIN, AND ONLY bllAI10vl> OI WAN LOVERS PINE. AS SUCH AN ONE WERE GLAD TO KN'OW TUT BRINE :vU.I OX HIS LIPS. AND THE...
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Ballades in blue china

Andrew Lang - 1881 - 152 pages
...lore complain, And c*!y shadows of wan lovers pine, As scch an one were glad to know the brine Sal: oc his lips, and the large air again, — So gladly,...Shrill wind beyond the close of heavy flowers, And throngh the music of the languid hours, They hear like ocean on a western beach The smge and thunder...
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The Rhymester: Or, The Rules of Rhyme. A Guide to English Versification ...

Tom Hood - English language - 1882 - 224 pages
...Lulled by the song of Circe and her wine In gardens near the pale of Proserpine, Where that ^Egean isle forgets the main, And only the low lutes of love...the brine Salt on his lips, and the large air again, verse is beginning to be transmitted across the Channel to England, and we now and then see an English...
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The Odyssey of Homer: Done Into English Prose

Homer, Samuel Henry Butcher, Andrew Lang - Epic poetry, Greek - 1883 - 472 pages
...LULLED BY THE SONG OF CIRCE AND HER WINS IN GARDENS NEAR THE PALE OF PROSERPINE. WHERE THAT J-JEAX ISLE FORGETS THE MAIN, AND ONLY THE LOW LUTES OF LOVE...FEEL THE FREE SHRILL WIND BEYOND THE CLOSE OF HEAVY FLOWEK3 AND THROUGH THE MUSIC OF THE LANGUID HOURS, THEY HEAR LIKE OCEAN ON A WESTERN BEACH THE SURGE...
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The Odyssey of Homer

S. H. Butcher, A. Lang - 1883 - 470 pages
...LAIH LULLED BY THE SONG OF CIRCE AND HER WINH IN GARDENS NEAR THE PALE OF PROSERPINE. WHERE THAT ^i^AN ISLE FORGETS THE MAIN. AND ONLY THE LOW LUTES OF LOVE...LOVERS PINE, AS SUCH AN ONE WERE GLAD TO KNOW THE ORINH SALT ON HIS LIPS, AND THE LARGE AIR AGAIN. SO GLADLY, FROM THE SONGS OF MODERN SPEECH MEN TURN....
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The Royal Readers: Special Canadian Series ..., Book 5

1883 - 528 pages
...the home of the enchantress Circe (dissyllable), was by later poets placed in the Sicilian strait. And only the low lutes of love complain, And only shadows of wan lovers pine ; As such a one were glad to know the brine Salt on his lips and the large air again, So gladly from the songs...
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Sonnets of this Century

William Sharp - English poetry - 1886 - 424 pages
...Lulled by the song of Circe and her wine In gardens near the pale of Proserpine, Where that .d&ean isle forgets the main, And only the low lutes of love...the brine Salt on his lips, and the large air again, bo gladly, from the songs of modern speech Men turn, and see the stars, and feel the free Shrill wind...
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A Tennyson Primer: With a Critical Essay

William Macneile Dixon - 1896 - 208 pages
...seeks for quiet waters and for harbours of refuge for the soul upon the voyage of life, Browning " is glad to know the brine salt on his lips and the large air again," and finds invigorating influences and infinite encouragement in the midst of toil and storm ; quxdam...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 188

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1898 - 596 pages
...Lulled by tho song of Circe and her wine In gardens near the pale of Proserpine, Where that /Ki^ni isle forgets the main, And only the low lutes of love...lovers pine, As such an one were glad to know the hrine Salt on his lips, and the large air again, So gladly, from the songs of modern speech Men turn,...
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