 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Love be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers ; Uufaith in aught is want of faith in all. It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. The little rift within the lover's lute Or little... | |
 | Fashion - 1870 - 726 pages
...there no sweet, pale face towards which your whole being surges ? Little things, despise them not — " It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mate, And, ever widening, (lowly silence all." Is your heart that lute? The time was when friendship... | |
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. " It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all " The little rift within the lover's lute, Or little... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Arthurian romances - 1859 - 304 pages
...Love be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. "It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. " The little rift within the lover's lute, Or little... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1859 - 256 pages
...be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. ' It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. 'The little rift within the lover's lute, Or little... | |
 | Literature - 1859 - 558 pages
...our«, Faith and unfaith can ne'et be equal powers : Unfaith in aught it want of faith in all. ' It it the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening timely silence all. ' The little rift within the lover's lute, Or little... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Tarring, West, Eng. (Parish) - 1860 - 530 pages
...inftrument like the rational foul, and no melody like that of well-tuned affeftions. When this nmIk accompanies the other, the facred harmony of the Church...— and he maintained Madoe, Part II. i. Madame de Stacl, De L'Allemagne, iii. 38. Bp. Horne, On 1'I.iIm xxxiii. 2. Tennyfon's Idyl ls of the King. Vivien.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. " It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all " The little rift within the lover's lute, Or little... | |
 | John Nichol - Criticism - 1860 - 258 pages
...be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. " It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And, ever widening, slowly silence all. " The little rift within the lover's lute, Or little... | |
 | Mary Molesworth - 1860 - 340 pages
...in any one known sin. That single vice will most surely deteriorate the general character, even as " The little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the mnsic mute, Or little pitted speck in garner'd fruit, That rotting inward slowly moulders all." The... | |
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It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. 
