“The house at Farringford,” says Mrs. Richmond Ritchie in her Records, “seemed like a charmed palace, with green walls without, and speaking walls within. There hung Dante with his solemn nose and wreath; Italy gleamed over the doorways; friends’ faces lined the passages, books filled the shelves, and a glow of crimson was everywhere; the oriel drawing-room window was full of green and golden leaves, of the sound of birds and of the distant sea.”
The Glade at Farringford
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The grounds of Farringford are exceedingly beautiful and picturesque. On the south side of the house is the glade, and close by
The waving pine which here
The warrior of Caprera set.
Referring to Farringford in his invitation to Maurice, Tennyson wrote—
Where far from noise and smoke of town
I watch the twilight falling brown
All round a careless order’d garden,
Close to the ridge of a noble down.
The ridge of the down in question constituted the poet’s favourite walk, and
Freshwater Bay
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