 | Sunset, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1883 - 296 pages
...more homely than is his wont, being weighted with a reality that discards the grace of words : — " Ah Christ ! that it were possible, For one short hour...that they might tell us, What and where they be." We pass from that. That is not to be. Neither are we to go into what some call speculation as to what... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...null. Maud. i. 5. That jewelled mass of millinery, That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull. IKd. v. 6. Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. Ibid. xxvi. 3. For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. The Brook. Rich in saving common-sense,... | |
 | M. C. Halifax - 1883 - 312 pages
...that heart sickening desire to know the fate of the beloved which only the bereaved can understand. " Ah Christ ! that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." But Guy never spoke of these things. They were too deep and sacred for words. He hid them away in his... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 pages
...Mvnoriam. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. In Mernoriam. Ah, Christ ! that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! Maud. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. 18O9-1861. NEXT to Tennyson, the name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning... | |
 | Susan Elizabeth Gay - 1883 - 348 pages
...The Hague, May 7th, 1877." To this no reply was vouchsafed. CHAPTER V. WIXOXA AXD SPIRIT IDEXTITY. " Ah ! Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! " 1 l7"HAT the poet dreamed of becomes a realised fact in the presence of our seer. He does behold... | |
 | Hanover College - 1883 - 136 pages
...cycle of Cathay."— Tennyson. 16. Auld Lang Sync. — JOHN LYLE KING, AM, Class of '41. "Oh, would, that it were possible For one short hour to see The...that they might tell us What and where they be."— Maud 36:3. 17. — OLLA-podricla. Omnes Alumni. "So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er, The... | |
 | Eliza Margaret J. Humphreys - 1883 - 388 pages
...word, with one faint gasping sob, I sank back upon my couch. I knew no more. CHAPTEE XXX. Oh God ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us What, and where they be ! So I cried bitterly and passionately for many and many a day after the news of Leslie's death had... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...beginning may be confident of no end. (Sir Thomat Brownt. Thy eternal summer shall not fade. (Shakespeare. Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell u» What and where they be. ( Tennyson. If there was no future life, our sonl? wonld not thirst for... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 412 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mlxt with kisses sweeter sweeter Than anything on earth. 3. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What aud where they be. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 526 pages
...that 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...short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might MAUD. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white rohe before me, When... | |
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A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee ; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. 
