...coining, my own, my sweet ! Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE3 AT BALAKLAVA. TLTALF a league, half a league, •*• Half a league onward,...

...The lover deemed it a token of extraordinary devotion, that, when his mistress came by, his " dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red." But no foot so humble, so little loved, so seldom listened for, that the earth will not feel its tread...

...coming, my own, my sweet ; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her, and beat, Had it lain for a century dead ; Would start and tremble under her feet And blossom in purple and red " What a love, which an unearthly remorse was to consume with the fires of hell, ended not even in...

...it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed ; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. I XXIII. ' THE fault was mine, the fault was mine ' — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still,...

...Were it earth in an earthy bed ; My dust wonld hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Wonld start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. XXIII. 1. "The fault was mine, the fault was mine"— Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still, Plucking...

...it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed ; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. A VOICE BY THE CEDAR-TREE. A VOICE hy the cedar-tree, In the meadow under the Hall ! She is singing...

...it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed ; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. ALFRED TENNYSON. The Welcome. i. in the evening, or come in the morning — * — Come when you're...

...it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed ; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. XXIII. i. "THE fault was mine, the fault was mine" — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still,...

...it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthly bed ; My dust fame unknown ; Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked ALFRED TENNYSON. THE YOUNG MAY MOON. THE young May moon is beaming, love, The glowworm's lamp is gleaming,...

...light touch upon her hair — a touch inexpressibly soft and caressing — as he repeated : " ' My dnet would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead ; Would etart and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.' Why, yes," he went on, dreamily,...