 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
..." What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : 115 " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : " Ah, miserable and unMnd, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted... | |
 | 1880 - 598 pages
...Esau, sold my birthright for, for—' The firm voice faltered, and for some minutes was heard only ' the water lapping on the crag, and the long ripple washing in the reeds.' The sun was setting over the sea, the fleecy white clouds were crimson-tipped, and the waves were golden... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...heavily : ' What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? ' And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : ' I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.' To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : ' Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted... | |
 | F. T. Wilson - 1881 - 234 pages
...poet, and the piping of a meadow-lark just under our feet. "And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : ' I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.' " " Never mind the reeds, Jack," shouts Dick from .his perch ; " throw me up a piece of bread. I have... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...heavily : " What is it thou hast seen t or what hast heard t " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : " Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted... | |
 | Philology, Modern - 1882 - 784 pages
...lully elucidates this point; Webster is wrong here. ~Wa.ter-ripples. Ripples are soft, curling waves. „I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." (Tennyson's Morte d' Arthur). Page 50. Buckling on innumerable wings. To buckle on means to fasten... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pages
...heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : "Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unkmghtly, tntitor-hearted... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1882 - 518 pages
...waste land, where no one comes Or hath come since the making of the world." and mark "The wild waters lapping on the crag." and " The long ripple washing in the reeds." One can, moreover, easily rend her own character in her hooks. They all betray her intense desire to... | |
 | Augusta Jane Wilson - 1883 - 378 pages
...shining beach, when the sky is quiet, the winds are hushed, and all things wrapped in rest, save ' The water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds' — a fair, fearless child, gathering polished pearly shells with which to build fairy palaces, and... | |
 | Augusta Jane Wilson - 1883 - 380 pages
...huts dimly outlined against the starry sky and quiet sea. Pausing, he took off his hat to listen to "The water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds," and, while he stood wiping his brow, there came across the beach, — "A cry that shivered to the tingling... | |
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Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily: "What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: "I heard the water lapping on the crag , And the long ripple washing in the reeds. 
