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
 | R. A. Hammond - Authors, English - 1871 - 450 pages
...overwhelming evidence. Mr. Dickens could scarcely believe it, although he might wish with Tennyson — " Oh that it were possible, for one short hour, to see...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be !" Howitt sent a letter to one of the weekly papers, stating that " Mr. Dickens wrote me some time... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 330 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter Than any thing on earth. III. 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 (1st baron.) - 1872 - 344 pages
...flits before me. Not thou, but like to thee ; ЛЬ Christ, that It were possible For oue short hoar to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. 4. • It lends roc forth nt evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all my... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 534 pages
...possible After long grief and pain To find the arms of my true love Bound me once again ! 2. When 1 was wont to meet her In the silent woody places By...hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell of What and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Death in literature - 1873 - 490 pages
...problems that are apt to press on the spirit, pressing for an answer, though answer there can be none. " Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! " Webster's Duchess of Maln has a larger wish in point of time, and indeed of purpose too : " —... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1873 - 812 pages
...temperament will read all the seven ghost stories contained in "The Haunted House," at a late hour, * " Oh, that it were possible, for one short hour, to see...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be!" — Tcr.nyiQn. alone, and in a dull and gloomy room, a very quiet and comfortable night's rest may... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873 - 354 pages
...possihle For one short honr to see The sonls we loved, that they might tell ns What and where they he. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white rohe hefore me, When all my spirit reels At the Ehonts, the leagnes of lights, And the roaring of the... | |
 | Margaret Hunt - 1874 - 312 pages
...is the rock his seat, gazing whole days, With wandering eye, on all the watery waste." Grahames. " Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." Tennyson. TT was a dull, leaden grey morning, with nothing to see but a wide expanse of cheerless sands... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 496 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Sabina (pseud.) - 1875 - 288 pages
...'twere possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love Bound me once again ! A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! " I read it over, wondering if mamma had marked the passages. I had often read ' Maud ' recently,... | |
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