 | Rhoda Broughton - 1867 - 396 pàgines
...fingers which grasps so at the universal sympathies of this whole tearful world, as this: — "Oh Christ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us "What and where they be ! " Before, when my old man had gone away from me, though he was beyond the reach of my fond arms,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 pàgines
...sweeter Than anything on earth. 3A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee ; 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 shouts, the leagues of lights, And the roaring... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 262 pàgines
...However weary, a spark of will Not to be trampled out." When he knows her dead, he says, " Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see' The...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." And after he recovers from his madness, he says, " It fell at a time of year When the face of night... | |
 | 1868 - 688 pàgines
...before me — Noi thou, but like io thcc. Oh, Christ! thai ii were possible For one abort hour to sco The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.' are from Teunyson's Mand.— Also Nellie, that the lines— 1 The Almighty's breath spake ont in death,... | |
 | 1868 - 676 pàgines
...from — ' A shadow fltts before me — Not thou, but ltke to thce. Oh, Christ ! that tt were posstble For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they mtght tell us What and where they be.' And also whether a story called Priez pour elle ever appeared... | |
 | 1869 - 254 pàgines
...sweeter, Than anything on earth. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee ; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies ; In a wakeful... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pàgines
...sweeter Than anything on earth. 3. 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 m What and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white... | |
 | E L. Hull - 1870 - 274 pàgines
...earnestly we long to pierce ! Who has not almost prayed in the words of the poet — " Ah ! Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ?" But here a great problem meets us. Taking the Scripture teaching that this life is the germ of the... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1870 - 120 pàgines
...overcome. " I thought," he wrote to the American publisher, " that I could not be tempted at * "Oh that it were possible, for one short hour, to see...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be !"— TENNYSON. this time to engage in any undertaking, however short, but the literary project which... | |
 | 1870 - 856 pàgines
...answer supplied beforehand to the longing cry — " Oh, Christ, that it were possible Alter long years to see The souls we loved. that they might tell us What and where they be i" It is entitled " A Toice from Afar :"— " Weep not for me : — Be blithe as wont, nor tinge with... | |
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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. 
