The tradition that the guilty wife of King Arthur fled thither for protection forms one of the finest passages in Tennyson's Idyls of the King.
Trianon; the royal farmer's wife had no more the heart to carry the spindle, to gather eggs from the hens' nests, and to perform with her friends the joyous idyls of a pastoral life.
He loved America with a profound love; her ideals, her traditions, her epic history were in his blood, and he glorified them in ballads and idyls that reflect the very spirit of brave Colonial days.
So that we should interpret these little songs or idyls in the light of the didactic Scriptures, as we may profitably read those Scriptures in the warmth of these Canticles.
He devoured Byron and Shelley; and in Tennyson's "Idyls of the King" he found the spark which kindled his especial love for mediæval lore and poetry.
It is probable that the scarcity of snow-idyls hitherto is due to the supposed cheerlessness of the snow.
And by virtue of this descriptive power, these idyls will be held long in grateful remembrance.
In familiar and humble things he found the "tender idyls of the heart.
Of the "Idyls of the King" he says that the first and third Idylscould only have come from a great poet, but that the second and fourth are not quite equal to the others.
Maybe there were idyls somewhere, but not in the sphere where she lived--they were not for her!
An idyl, father; I used to laugh at allidyls without knowing that I had one in myself.
Although Bion's poems possess elegance and sweetness, and abound in pleasing imagery, they lack the naturalness of the idyls of Theocritus.
It is not precisely the bourgeois felicity of Boccaccio, but a tranquillity that finds choicest expression in the painted idyls of Giorgione and the written idyls of Sannazzaro.
Hesiod and the Metamorphoses of Ovid, the Idyls of Theocritus and Virgil's Eclogues, legends of early Greek civility, and romances of late Greek literature contributed their several elements to this conception of a pastoral ideal.
If it is impossible to render any adequate account of pastoral drama, to do this for bucolic idyls would be no less difficult.
The other, Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, was a ruggeder bantling, containing almost the first blank verse poems ever written in Scottish dialect.
The book of poems called 'Undertones' was the one; the book of poems called 'Idyls and Legends of Inverburn' was the other.
In evidence of the dramatic character of many of these episodes we need but refer to the "Idyls of the King," whose various romantic and tragic narratives are all derived from this quaint "old master" of fictitious literature.
Or has an evil wound thrown thee Upon the earth where now in vain the god Of idyls tries to raise thee with his kisses?
Thirty-one of hisidyls and pastorals and a number of his epigrams have been preserved.
Post-Laureate Idyls and Other Poems is a book of genuine poetic spirit and almost flawless workmanship.
The Post-Laureate Idyls are ten parodies of Tennyson’s “Idyls of the King” whose themes are taken from Mother Goose Melodies.
Here are two exquisite idyls of Russian rural life.
The idyls are full of streams and fountains, just such as I meet with wherever I turn, and the water counts in the landscape as in the poems.
In the Idyls of the King there are several traits of the epic.
These lyrics and idyls are made up of ornate commonplaces which show the artistic instinct rather than the poetic.
The ballads and other lyrics published within the last dozen years display a rugged virility that was quite foreign to the labored "Idyls of the King.
The characteristic flavor and suggestion of these Idyls is like pure spring-water.
In theIdyls of Theocritus there are frequent allusions to springs.
It is one of a series of lyric idyls making up the poem of Solomon's Song.
Three Idyl Stories (Ruth, Esther, Tobit) are contained in the Biblical Idyls volume of this series.
There are, for example, several descriptions of tournaments and combats in the Idyls of the King.
Everyone realizes that for one man who has read Tennyson's "Idyls of the King" there are probably five women to whom they have been a source of delight.
Let its work lie on our tables and dwell in our hearts with the "Idyls of the King,"--the Aeolian memories of a chivalry departed blending with the voices of the nobler knighthood of our time.
But stepping out of idyls and novels, and stepping into American kitchens, is it not true that the larger part of the mothers see in their babies, or act as if they saw, only babies?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "idyls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
