 | Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton Marquis of Northampton - 1837 - 448 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1838 - 862 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1877 - 506 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1870 - 846 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1875 - 676 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1895 - 666 pàgines
..."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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 176 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 436 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 180 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Warren Tilton, William August Crafts - 1856 - 318 pàgines
...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,... | |
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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. 
