 | Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton Marquis of Northampton - 1837 - 448 pàgines
...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...forth at Evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all my spirit reels At the shouts, the leagues of lights, And the roaring... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1838 - 862 pàgines
...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...forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all my spirit reels At the shouts, the leagues of lights And the roaring... | |
 | 1838 - 556 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1877 - 506 pàgines
...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 to see The...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 - 846 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1875 - 676 pàgines
...Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." flunciad, last lines. "Ah. Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The...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... | |
 | 1895 - 666 pàgines
..."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... | |
 | 1882 - 644 pàgines
...precise meaning of this expression 1 — " To read between the line«." WILLIAM PLATT. " 0 Christ ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls of those we loved, that they Alight tell us where and what they be." [The memory of him] "passed away... | |
 | 1855 - 724 pàgines
...sweeter Than any thing on earth. A shadow flits before mo, Not thou, but like to theu ; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The...forth at evening It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all my spirit reels At the shout*, the leagues of lights, And the roaring... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pàgines
...sweeter Than any thing on earth. A shmlow flits hefore me, Not thnn, hut like to thee ; Ah Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour, to see...forth at 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... | |
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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. 
