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
| Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore - 1878 - 590 Seiten
...dream. But stibmission does not come with the blow that smites us. Our first cry is : " O Christ I that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we love, that they might tell Us what and where they be!" It is only after we have walked with Sorrow,... | |
| 1879 - 524 Seiten
...me birth, We stood tranced m long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter, sweeter Thau 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 ln a cold white robe before me. When all... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1879 - 470 Seiten
...of Maud, but cannot be recognized for her : A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thce : Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. A period of wilder lunacy succeeds. lie fancies himself dead and buried, and yet, with the contradictory... | |
| PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 Seiten
...him of Maud, but cannot be recognized for her: A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thce : Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. A period of wilder lunacy succeeds. He fancies himself dead and buried, and yet, with the contradictory... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1879 - 464 Seiten
...phantom, that reminds him of Maud, but cannot be recognised for her : A shadow flits before me, Not t hou but like to thee : Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hoar to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. A period of wilder... | |
| James Burnley - 1880 - 336 Seiten
...town, as well as in Bowling, there will be found persons echoing the words of the poet, and crying — Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! May not the desire for " the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still," be... | |
| Hamilton Aïdé - 1880 - 330 Seiten
...able blindly to accept all ; and Wilfred's heart, as he buried his head in his hands, sighed — " O, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we love, that they might tell us What and where they be !" Towards five o'clock that day, the sun shone... | |
| 1880 - 638 Seiten
...token and sign If tEi .e best of the kings of man-folk, and the men of men be thine.' Lohengrin. ' Oh, Christ ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The friends we love, that they might tell us What and where they be.' Adoxa. ' Think of me in the other... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 Seiten
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter Than anything on earth. nt. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. nr. It leads me forth at evening. It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1881 - 502 Seiten
...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...hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell UB What and where they be. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white... | |
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