 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
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1875 - 284 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter Than anything 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 898 pages
...Jbid. Conclusion. That jewell'd mass of millinery, That oil'd and curl'd Assyrian Bull. .'/,:/.,/ V. 6 Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...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 - 1876 - 452 pages
...embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter TImn any thing on earth. in. A shadow flits before me, .\ < 1 1 thou, but like to thee ; Ah Christ, that it were possible...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. IV. It leads me forth ;it evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 498 pages
...birth, \Ve 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 - English poetry - 1877 - 392 pages
...possihle For one short honr tq see The sonls we loved, that they might tell ns What and where they he. 4. 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 shonts, the leagnes of lights, And the roaring of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1878 - 688 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter Than anything on earth. HI. 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1878 - 896 pages
...Ibid. Conclusion. That jewell'd mass of millinery, That oil'd and curl'd Assyrian Bull. Maud. v. 6 Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. Maud. xxvL 3. O good gray head which all men knew. On the Death of the Duke of Wellington. St. 4. Theirs... | |
 | James Stuart (of Stretford.) - 1878 - 244 pages
...yearned for more light, have longed for the disclosure of the great secret, have shared the wish " Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." But our impassioned desires are in vain. To the most eager questionings of men, no reply from beyond... | |
 | William Walters - 1878 - 128 pages
...existence there, or its employments ? Do our departed friends interest themselves in our affairs ? "Oh, CHRIST! that it were possible, For one short hour...loved, that they might tell Us what and where they be." LAZARUS, on his return, told his sisters nothing of his four days' absence ; or, if he did, we have... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1878 - 194 pages
...thing on earth. III. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thr.e ; Ah Christ, that it werf.- possible For one short hour to see The souls we 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... | |
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