Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where... The Hawthorne Readers - Page 434by Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904Full view - About this book
| Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...otherwise than surpassingly, divinely beautiful. What an opening to the tale of fallen Sovereignty ! " Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat grey-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 pages
...fable of the autient gods dethroned by the younger. ' Deep I . Keats's Lamia, and other Poems. 307 ' Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1820 - 790 pages
...any thing exceeds in silent grandeur the opening of the poem, which exhibits Saturn m his solitude : Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn. Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hairM Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung... | |
| Classical philology - 1826 - 360 pages
...have suggested the admirable description of Saturn's place of exile, in the Hyperion of John Keats : Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat grey-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...their armour : these the squadron led, August, divine, superior by the head ! — Shield of Achilles. DEEP in the shady sadness of a vale, Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...poem of Hyperion, where he describes the dethroned monarch of the gods, sitting in his exile : — Deep in the shady sadness of a vale. Far sunken from...morn. Far from the fiery noon, and Eve's one star, Sate grey-huir'd Saturn, quiet as a stone. Quiet as a stone I Nothing certainly can be more quiet than... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round...head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, Not so much life as on a summer's day But where the... | |
| Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn. KEATS. SATURN. Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 552 pages
...sunken from the healthy breath of mom, Far from ihe fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round...there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs nol one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest. A stream... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 554 pages
..., The Beadsman, after thousand aves told. For aye unsought-for slept among his ashe* cold. BOOK I. DEEP in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as ihe silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest... | |
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