 And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me. Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did...  The North British Review - Page 2391857Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair, And a voice said, in mastery while I strove...sympathize. Mrs. Browning says, in her preface to this poein, that it " contains the impressions of the writer upon events in Tuscany, of which she was a... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Children's poetry, English - 1850 - 596 pages
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery while I strove,...The silver answer rang, . . " Not Death, but Love." II. BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said ; Himself, beside Thee... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1851 - 252 pages
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery while I strove,...The silver answer rang . . " Not Death, but Love." n. BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said ; Himself, beside Thee... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1851 - 252 pages
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair; And a voice said in mastery while I strove, . . "Guess now who holds theef—"Death!" I said. But, there, The silver answer rang . . " Not Death, but Love." II. BUT only... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1852 - 254 pages
...Straightway I was 'ware^ So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery while I strove,...said. But, there, The silver answer rang . . "Not Dec*h, but Love." n. BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said; Himself,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1852 - 252 pages
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair; And a voice said in mastery while I strove, . . "Guess now who holds theef—"Death!" I said. But, there, The silver answer rang . . " Not De \ but Love." II. BUT only... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853 - 508 pages
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery while I strove,...The silver answer rang . . ' Not Death, but Love.' BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said ; Himself, beside Thee speaking... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1857 - 624 pages
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair, And a voice said, in mastery while I strove : ' Guess now who holds thee У ' Death !' I said. But there, The silver answer rang: 'Not Death, but Love.' " " Casa Guidi Windows"... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 502 pages
...mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair, And a voice said in mastery while l strove, . . . "Guess now who holds thee?" " Death!"...The silver answer rang — "Not Death, but Love." This -article is already too long, and yet, how little have we said, how much remains to be written... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1862 - 718 pages
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery while I strove,...The silver answer rang, ..." Not Death, but Love." v. I lift my heavy heart up solemnly, As once Electra her sepulchral urn, And, looking in thine eyes,... | |
| |
