 | John Churton Collins - 1891 - 244 pages
...up its awakened head, namely that we may haply find the power of the Gods to be without limit, &c.). Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be (Part II. iv. 3) : The aspiration of the Duchess in Webster : — 0 that it were possible we might... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1891 - 176 pages
...will, as I have, I can not escape, nor would I, the everlasting belief in the eternity of the soul. That it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. A great man of a great country has died. Died like a hero, in that he died at the post of duty. A man... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter Than any thing on earth. 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... | |
 | W. W. Robson, William Wallace Robson - 1984 - 288 pages
...that 'twere possible After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true-love Round me once again! 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... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - 1986 - 422 pages
...In the silent woody places Of the land that gave me birth, We stood tranced in long embraces, Mixed with kisses sweeter, sweeter, Than any thing on earth....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... | |
 | Alida Gersie - 1991 - 348 pages
...5. 9. Oral tradition. Told amongst others by Pomme Clayton, Crick-Crack Club, London 1989. Ah God! That it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. Alfred, Lord Tennyson CHAPTER SEVEN In search of reparation It is so very difficult to lose, to have... | |
 | Graham Greene - 1963 - 198 pages
...cold garage by the baby's pram, staring out at the black hail: 'A shadow flits before me, Not t huu, but like to thee; Ah Christ, that it were possible...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.' He dug his nails into his hands, remembering his father who had been hanged and his mother who had... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true-love Round me once again! . . . 98 Ah God! not my beauty's fire Inflame unstaid desire, Nor...bright eye That wandereth lightly. E1L; GBL; NOBE; NoP ... BoLoP; NAEL-2; NOBE; NOBW; OAEL-2; OBEV; PoE 99 See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1995 - 244 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter Than any thing on earth. 10 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... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 pages
...him. God accept him, Christ receive him.12 In Maud, 1855, Part II, sec. iv, st. 3, Tennyson wrote: Oh, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.13 In Enoch Arden, 1864, line 222, Tennyson wrote: Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.14... | |
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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. 
