 She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were 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 dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple...  The Williams Quarterly - Seite 2371857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 Seiten
...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. / xxm i " THE fault was mine, the fault was mine " — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still,... | |
 | Elaine Jordan - 1988 - 212 Seiten
...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. Even in the swoon of imaginative death the heart is still preternaturally alert - 'my dust' is contradicted... | |
 | Jessica Amanda Salmonson - 1989 - 308 Seiten
...the lily whispers, 'I wait.' "She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red." During the singing of the first stanza Raphael kept his position on the sofa, but the second had not... | |
 | Arthur F. Marotti - 1993 - 404 Seiten
...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. (916-23) On the formal level, space functions to restrain full temporal unfolding and expansion too.... | |
 | Andreas Fischer - 1994 - 276 Seiten
...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.XXIIjd. 916-924; Ricks 563) The singing mind is going wrong, singing itself to death, rhyming itself... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1995 - 244 Seiten
...ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat. Were it earth in an earthy bed; 70 My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red, Part II 1 i 'The fault was mine, the fault was mine' Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still. Plucking... | |
 | Sebastian David Guy Knowles - 1999 - 398 Seiten
...heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had 1 lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet. And blossom in purple and red. (Tennyson, 280) (Arthur Somervell has set these lines to music as part of his Maud song cycle.) 17.... | |
 | Helen Groth - 2003 - 266 Seiten
...sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and bear, Were it earth in an earthy bed; Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. Spoken in a state of romantic reverie, these stanzas provide a nostalgic counterpoint to the increasingly... | |
 | Marion Zimmer Bradley - 2003 - 580 Seiten
...CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 1961 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 dead; ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON THE NEW YEAR BEGAN BADLY — THE UNITED STATES BROKE DIPLOmatic ties to Cuba,... | |
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