 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.  Poems: In Two Volumes - Seite 377von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 522 Seiten
...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...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. " It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all... | |
 | 1855 - 1416 Seiten
...before me, Not thou, but like to thec; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to seeThe souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. It leads me forth at evening It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all my... | |
 | 1855 - 1428 Seiten
...for one slmrt hour to see TI.e souls we loved, that they might tell us n n«t »nd where they belt leads me forth at evening It lightly winds and steals In a culd while robe before me, When all my spirit reels At the shout*, the leagues oflights. And the roaring... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 176 Seiten
...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...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1856 - 694 Seiten
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter, sweeter Than any thing on earth. • A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! ' It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When... | |
 | Warren Tilton, William August Crafts - 1856 - 318 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Mary Henderson Eastman - 1856 - 406 Seiten
...whence, or, as dreaming, seeing a light that turns to darkness. I wish I could know of the future. " Ah ! Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." " You cannot now, Irene," I said, " beyond what God has revealed to us in the Bible. You believe in... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 188 Seiten
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter Than any thing on earth. S. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, v It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all my spirit reels At the shouts,... | |
 | Horace - 1861 - 372 Seiten
...have gone up from the Pagan breast, for which our great contemporary poet has found a voice ! O God, that it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us, What and where they be ! Indeed, a belief in a life beyond the present, in which the perplexities of this life shall be resolved,... | |
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