 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 601 pages
...reply : He is but dead, and the time is at hand When thou shall more than die. XXVI I O THAT 'twere possible After long grief and pain To find the arms of my true love Round me once again 1 2 When I was wont to meet her In the silent woody places By the home that... | |
 | W. W. Robson - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 284 pages
...think of Maud as a whole, it is surely impossible not to be moved by one part of it. Oh! that 'twere possible After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true-love Round me once again! A shadow flits before me Not thou, but like to thee, Ah God! that it... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - Poetry - 1986 - 393 pages
...oozing thin through the thorn from norward, And the woman calling. Alfred Lord Tennyson Oh ! that 'twere possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true-love Round me once again! When I was wont to meet her In the silent woody places Of the land that... | |
 | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 402 pages
...same instant. With a mighty cry of joy and thanksgiving he clasped her in his arms. " O, that 'twere possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love Round me once again ' " Sappho was welcomed right royally by Doctor Lewis, Dora and her mother,... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 368 pages
...poem we know was formed, in 1854-5, around the existing (heterosexual) Hallam-lyric, O that 'twere possible After long grief and pain To find the arms of my true love, Round me once again!25 but the poet of In Memoriam who in 1833 began his seventeen-years' labour... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1132 pages
...cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!' 97 O that 'twere TrGrPo; TW Up at a Villa -Down la the City 93 true-love Round me once again! . . . 98 Ah God! that it were possible For one short hour to see The... | |
 | David Gervais, Gervais David - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...music can flow through long periods and then break like a wave, unashamed of rhapsody: O that 'twere possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true-love Round me once again! To Milton the thought of what is irremediable, so sobering to Hill,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Poetry - 1995 - 232 pages
...her asleep, Powers of the height, Powers of the deep, And comfort her tho' I die. IV 1 O that 'twere possible After long grief and pain To find the arms of my true love Round me once again! 2 When I was wont to meet her In the silent woody places By the home that... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 669 pages
...of daffodil sky. 11544 'Maud' Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls. 11 545 'Maud' 0 that 'twere Ad love Round me once again! 11 546 'Maud' 1 embrace the purpose of God, and the doom assigned. 11547... | |
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twere possible After long grief and pain To find the arms of my true love Round me once again... 
