...TENNYSON, ESQ. OH ! that 'twere possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true-love Round me once again ! When I was wont to meet her...flits before me — Not thou, but like to thee. Ah God ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What...

...gave me birth. We stood tranced in long embraces. Mixt with kisses sweeter, sweeter, Than anything on earth. A shadow flits before me — Not thou, but like to thee, Ah God ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What...

...love. When bereavement is recent, and the chill of death pierces us to the bone, and we are saying, " Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." We are helplessly driven on to the shores of eternity, like sea- weed loosened from its hold, or the...

...beforehand to the longing cry — " Oh, Christ, that it were possible After long years to lee The goujs we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! " It is entitled " A Voice from Afar : " " Weep not for me: — Be blithe aa wont, nor tinge with gloom...

...hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." flunciad, last lines. "Ah. Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." Tennyson's Matul, p. ii. iv. 3. " 0 that it were possible we might But hold some two days' conference...

..."Wood" and "code" are but indifferent rhymes. In the beautiful lines— Ab Christ, that it were penible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell as What and where they be — the sacred name was certainly not pronounced aa in "Christopher," for...

...stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter, sweeter Than anything on earth. 2. MAUD. 3. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all...

...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter, sweeter Than anything on earth. 8. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all...

...sweeter, sweeter Than anything on earth. 8. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to'thee ; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all...

...contains many exquisite passages, and some though not many very natural ones. How fine is this : " Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." And this : " And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke Prom the red-ribbed hollow behind the wood,...