 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pages
...me birth, We 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... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...also live, Such grace the heavens do to my verses give, с SPENSER-- The Aniñes of Time. Line 253. Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. d. TENNYSON— Maud. Pt. XXVI. The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with... | |
 | Susan Elizabeth Gay - Church history - 1883 - 348 pages
...The Hague, May 7th, 1877." To this no reply was vouchsafed. CHAPTER V. WIXOXA AXD SPIRIT IDEXTITY. " Ah ! Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! " 1 l7"HAT the poet dreamed of becomes a realised fact in the presence of our seer. He does behold... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...Where pain is stilled, and sorrow doth not weep. 1875 William Winter : Emotion of Sympathy. Pt ill. Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. 1876 Tennyson : Maud. Pt. xxvl. St. 3. Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud. 1877 Bailey: Festus.... | |
 | M. C. Halifax - English fiction - 1883 - 312 pages
...that heart sickening desire to know the fate of the beloved which only the bereaved can understand. " Ah Christ ! that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." But Guy never spoke of these things. They were too deep and sacred for words. He hid them away in his... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - American literature - 1883 - 302 pages
...Mvnoriam. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. In Mernoriam. Ah, Christ ! that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! Maud. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. 18O9-1861. NEXT to Tennyson, the name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning... | |
 | Sunset, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Christian life - 1883 - 296 pages
...more homely than is his wont, being weighted with a reality that discards the grace of words : — " Ah Christ ! that it were possible, For one short hour...that they might tell us, What and where they be." We pass from that. That is not to be. Neither are we to go into what some call speculation as to what... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...null. Maud. i. 5. That jewelled mass of millinery, That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull. IKd. v. 6. Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. Ibid. xxvi. 3. For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. The Brook. Rich in saving common-sense,... | |
 | Eliza Margaret J. Humphreys - 1883 - 388 pages
...word, with one faint gasping sob, I sank back upon my couch. I knew no more. CHAPTEE XXX. Oh God ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us What, and where they be ! So I cried bitterly and passionately for many and many a day after the news of Leslie's death had... | |
 | Hanover College - 1883 - 136 pages
...cycle of Cathay."— Tennyson. 16. Auld Lang Sync. — JOHN LYLE KING, AM, Class of '41. "Oh, would, that it were possible For one short hour to see The...that they might tell us What and where they be."— Maud 36:3. 17. — OLLA-podricla. Omnes Alumni. "So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er, The... | |
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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. 
