wide-watered

“And all down each wide-watered shore the troubled, yet still limpid floods,”

National Epics

“They swarmed like bees that sally from some hollow cave and flit in countless throng among the spring flowers, bunched in knots and clusters; even so did the mighty multitude pour from ships and tents to the assembly, and range themselves upon the wide-watered shore, while among them ran”

The Iliad of Homer

“Far off across the wide-watered plain came a low muttering of thunder, and a few big drops pattered in the great elms.”

The Upton Letters

“Here we had a glimpse of the wide-watered valley rich in grass, here of silent woods, up-piled in the distance, over which quivered the hot summer air.”

At Large

“This is Milton's curfew, that sways across one of the greatest of all the seashores of poetry -- "the wide-watered.”

The Spirit of Place and Other Essays

“They swarmed like bees that sally from some hollow cave and flit in countless throng among the spring flowers, bunched in knots and clusters; even so did the mighty multitude pour from ships and tents to the assembly, and range themselves upon the wide-watered shore, while among them ran Wildfire Rumour, messenger of Jove, urging them ever to the fore.”

The Iliad

“Africa, and India, and the Brazilian wide-watered plain, are these not wide enough for the ignorance of our race? have they not space enough for its pain?”

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing

“Yet again there are other moments, when sights and sounds have an overpowering and awful significance; when the gleams of some tremendous secret seemed flashed upon my mind, at the sight of the mist-hung valley with its leafless woods and level water-meadows; the flaring pomp of sunset hung low in the west over the bare ploughland or the wide-watered plain; the wailing of the wind round the firelit house; the faint twitter of awakening birds in the ivy; the voice and smile of my children; the music breaking the silence of the house at evening.”

The Altar Fire

“wide-watered shore" is only appropriate to Oxford in flood time, the very last season when a poet would wish to remember it.”

The Charm of Oxford