 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 414 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter, sweeter Than anything on earth. 3. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell as What and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white... | |
 | Rhoda Broughton - 1867 - 396 pages
...mortal fingers which grasps so at the universal sympathies of this whole tearful world, as this: — "Oh Christ! that it were possible For one short hour to...loved, that they might tell us "What and where they be ! " Before, when my old man had gone away from me, though he was beyond the reach of my fond arms,... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 262 pages
...dark heart, However weary, a spark of will Not to be trampled out." When he knows her dead, he says, " Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." And after he recovers from his madness, he says, " It fell at a time of year When the face of night... | |
 | 1868 - 688 pages
...before me — Noi thou, but like io thcc. Oh, Christ! thai ii were possible For one abort hour to sco The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.' are from Teunyson's Mand.— Also Nellie, that the lines— 1 The Almighty's breath spake ont in death,... | |
 | 1868 - 676 pages
...from — ' A shadow fltts before me — Not thou, but ltke to thce. Oh, Christ ! that tt were posstble For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they mtght tell us What and where they be.' And also whether a story called Priez pour elle ever appeared... | |
 | 1869 - 254 pages
...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...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies ; In a wakeful... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embracef Mixt with kisses sweeter, sweeter Than anything on earth. 3. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell m What and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter Than anything on earth. A shadow flits before me, Not then, but like to thee ; Ah Christ, that it were possible...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... | |
 | E L. Hull - 1870 - 274 pages
...— which how earnestly we long to pierce ! Who has not almost prayed in the words of the poet — " Ah ! Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ?" But here a great problem meets us. Taking the Scripture teaching that this life is the germ of the... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1870 - 120 pages
...overcome. " I thought," he wrote to the American publisher, " that I could not be tempted at * "Oh that it were possible, for one short hour, to see...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be !"— TENNYSON. this time to engage in any undertaking, however short, but the literary project which... | |
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