 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 - Page 377by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863Full view - About this book
 | 1868 - 676 pages
...from — ' A shadow fltts before me — Not thou, but ltke to thce. Oh, Christ ! that tt were posstble For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they mtght tell us What and where they be.' And also whether a story called Priez pour elle ever appeared... | |
 | American poetry - 1869 - 254 pages
...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. Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies ; In a wakeful... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embracef Mixt with kisses sweeter, sweeter Than anything on earth. 3. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell m What and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white... | |
 | E L. Hull - 1870 - 274 pages
...— which how earnestly we long to pierce ! Who has not almost prayed in the words of the poet — " Ah ! Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ?" But here a great problem meets us. Taking the Scripture teaching that this life is the germ of the... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - Novelists, English - 1870 - 120 pages
...overcome. " I thought," he wrote to the American publisher, " that I could not be tempted at * "Oh that it were possible, for one short hour, to see...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be !"— TENNYSON. this time to engage in any undertaking, however short, but the literary project which... | |
 | England - 1870 - 840 pages
...answer supplied beforehand to the longing cry — " Oh, Christ, that it were possible Alter long years to see The souls we loved. that they might tell us What and where they be i" It is entitled " A Toice from Afar :"— " Weep not for me : — Be blithe as wont, nor tinge with... | |
 | Literature - 1872 - 816 pages
...mocked him with emptiness. And almost two thouand years later the Christian Laureate sang— " Oh, Christ ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we lovcM, that they might tell us What and where they be." Every generation calls on its beloved dead... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1870 - 138 pages
..." that I could not be tempted at * " Oh that it were possible, for one short hour, to see The sonls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be !"— TENNYSON. this time to engage in any undertaking, however short, but the literary project which... | |
 | Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett - 1871 - 336 pages
...of happiness brighter than any she had known for a long while. 227 CHAPTER XIV. TIDINGS AT LAST. ' A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee....loved, that they might tell us What and where they be 1 ' — Maud. ' I SHALL send Dick to school in England,' said Mr. Stanley one day, as he paused outside... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces' Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter Than anything on earth. 3A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. 4It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all... | |
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