Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in... Poems - Seite 37von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 261 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry Washington Hilliard - 1865 - 556 Seiten
...time, and turned it in his glowing handa ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. " Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the...self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight." TENNYSON. we submit ourselves to an ordeal which is to prove us worthy of a beloved object, there is... | |
| Frederick Martin - 1865 - 322 Seiten
...Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the...might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.' John Clare's first love — the deepest, noblest, and purest love of... | |
| 1865 - 552 Seiten
...in its inner soul ; as Tennyson so grandly sings : "Love took up the harp of life, And smote on nil the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, That trembling passed in music out of sight." Knowledge is the gift of love ; it concerns a loving purpose, and finds a congenial soil and atmosphere... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...HALLECK. On the Death of Drake. ALFRED TENNYSON. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all its chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling passed in music out of sight. Locksleg Hall. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 400 Seiten
...Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the...morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, Many an evening by the waters did we watch the stately ships, And our spirits rushed together at the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 Seiten
...Time, and turn'd it in. his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden winds. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might ; SUN "5 the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight. Many a morning on the moorland... | |
| 1866 - 978 Seiten
...beneath her sweet simplicity and graee : — "Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all it-s chords with might : Smote the chord of Self, that trembling passed in music out of eight!" And so Lancelot chafed under a sense of his own nothingness and unworthiuess. How clumsy he... | |
| 1866 - 744 Seiten
...all hopes of happiness, ambitions and anticipations that centered in himself, were forever forgotten. "Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chorda with mifrht, Smote the chord of Self, which, trembling, passed in music out of sight." Love,... | |
| 1867 - 974 Seiten
...now. For if it were for Anne's happiness, "Love took up the harp of Life, and emote on all the chorda with might : Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music ont of sight." he was content to give her up. It had been far otherwise in that earlier passion, which... | |
| 1866 - 650 Seiten
...The thought of selfishness has no place here. Tennyson's fine conception is exquisitely true : — " Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chorda with might ; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, paas'd in music out of sight." The institution... | |
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