 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 lehte
...Let me not cast in endless shade What is so wonderfully made." To which the voice did urge reply ; " To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He dried his wings :... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 lehte
...Let me not cast in endless shade What is so wonderfully made." To which the voice did urge reply ; " To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He dried his wings: like... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1849 - 326 lehte
...Let me not cast in endless shade What is so wonderfully made.' To which the voice did urge reply, ' To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie.' An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk — from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings —... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 lehte
...Let me not cast in endless shade What is so wonderfully made." To which the voice did urge reply ; " To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. I said, " When first the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 lehte
...Let me not cast in endless shade What is so wonderfully made." To which the voice did urge reply : " To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. I said, " When first the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 lehte
...Let me not cast in endless shade What is so wonderfully made." To which the voice did urge reply : " To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. I said, " When first the... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1851 - 216 lehte
...shade What is so wonderfully made.' To which the voice did urge reply, •To-day I saw thedragou-fly Come from the wells where he did lie,' An inner Impulse rent the veil Of his old husk — from head to tall Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings—... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 lehte
...their aurelia state.* * The poetical reader will recal Tennyson's lovely liues hi " The Two Voices." To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. The formica herculanea, or horse-ant, in the beginning of this month recommences its annual labours... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 lehte
...Let me not cast in endless shade What is so wonderfully made." To which the voice did urge reply; " To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk: from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He dried his wings: like... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 lehte
...Let me not cast in endless shade What is so wonderfully made." To which the voice did urge reply : " To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail " He dried his wings : like... | |
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To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He dried his wings: like gauze they grew: Thro' crofts and pastures wet with... 
