 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
 | Horace - 1881 - 420 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,... | |
 | 1874 - 784 Seiten
...past, and cry bitterly for you, even though it be in vain ? The great echo of the cry rings ever — "O Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we love, that they might tell us What and where they be .'" But Clara was not deceived, for the real presence... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 Seiten
...Ibid. Conclusion. That jewell'd mass of millinery, That oil'd and curl'd Assyrian Bull. Maud. v. 6 The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. Maud. xxvi. 3. O good gray head which all men knew. On the Death of the Duke of Wellington. St. 4.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 Seiten
...me birth, We stood tranced in long embrace* 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. IV. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 348 Seiten
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter Than anything on earth. m. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. IV. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 Seiten
...also live, Such grace the heavens do to my verses give, с SPENSER-- The Aniñes of Time. Line 253. Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. d. TENNYSON— Maud. Pt. XXVI. The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with... | |
 | M. C. Halifax - 1883 - 312 Seiten
...that heart sickening desire to know the fate of the beloved which only the bereaved can understand. " Ah Christ ! that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." But Guy never spoke of these things. They were too deep and sacred for words. He hid them away in his... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 Seiten
...Mvnoriam. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. In Mernoriam. Ah, Christ ! that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! Maud. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. 18O9-1861. NEXT to Tennyson, the name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning... | |
 | Susan Elizabeth Gay - 1883 - 348 Seiten
...The Hague, May 7th, 1877." To this no reply was vouchsafed. CHAPTER V. WIXOXA AXD SPIRIT IDEXTITY. " Ah ! Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! " 1 l7"HAT the poet dreamed of becomes a realised fact in the presence of our seer. He does behold... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 Seiten
...Where pain is stilled, and sorrow doth not weep. 1875 William Winter : Emotion of Sympathy. Pt ill. Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. 1876 Tennyson : Maud. Pt. xxvl. St. 3. Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud. 1877 Bailey: Festus.... | |
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