 | Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton Marquis of Northampton - English literature - 1837 - 422 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces, Mixt with kisses sweeter, sweeter, Than any thing on earth. A shadow flits before me — Not thou, but like to thee. Ah God ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What... | |
 | 1838
...visionary form, by which the writer is supposed to be haunted, amidst the streets of a crowded city: — ' It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, Where all my spirit reels At the shouts, the leagues of light, And the roaring of the wheels. ' Do... | |
 | History - 1838
...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, Ah God ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What... | |
 | 1877
...love. When bereavement is recent, and the chill of death pierces us to the bone, and we are saying, " Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." We are helplessly driven on to the shores of eternity, like sea- weed loosened from its hold, or the... | |
 | 1870
...beforehand to the longing cry — " Oh, Christ, that it were possible After long years to lee The goujs we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! " It is entitled " A Voice from Afar : " " Weep not for me: — Be blithe aa wont, nor tinge with gloom... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1875
...hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." flunciad, last lines. "Ah. Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." Tennyson's Matul, p. ii. iv. 3. " 0 that it were possible we might But hold some two days' conference... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1895
..."Wood" and "code" are but indifferent rhymes. In the beautiful lines— Ab Christ, that it were penible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell as What and where they be — the sacred name was certainly not pronounced aa in "Christopher," for... | |
 | 1855
...Mix'd with kisses sweeter, sweeter Than any thing on earth. A shmlow flits hefore me, Not thnn, hut like to thee ; Ah Christ, that it were possible, For...evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe hefore me, When all my spirit reels At the shouts, the leagues of lights, And the roaring of the wheels.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 160 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter, sweeter Than anything on earth. 8. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all... | |
 | ALFRED TENNYSON, D.C.L., - 1855
...stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter, sweeter Than anything on earth. 2. MAUD. 3. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all... | |
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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. 
