 | Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton Marquis of Northampton - 1837 - 448 páginas
...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...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 of the wheels.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1838 - 862 páginas
...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...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 of the wheels.... | |
 | 1838 - 556 páginas
...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 of the wheels.... | |
 | 1877 - 506 páginas
...love. When 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...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1845 - 652 páginas
...sweeter, sweeter Than any thing on earth ! A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee ; Oh, CHRIST! that it were possible, For one short hour, to see The souls we love, that they might tell in What and where they be ! It leads me forth at evening, And lightly winds... | |
 | 1875 - 676 páginas
...hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." flunciad, last lines. "Ah. Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...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 páginas
..."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... | |
 | 1855 - 724 páginas
...kisses sweeter 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...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 of the wheels.... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 páginas
...Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter Than anything on earth. " A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee ; Ah, Christ, that it were possible For...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 of the wheels.... | |
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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. 
