...never had a sorrow without seeking relief by turning it into a poem. Tennyson has a similar thought : But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies, The dumb, mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics soothing pain. George Eliot, also, speaks of " that stage...

...never had a sorrow without seeking relief by turning it into a poem. Tennyson has a similar thought : But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies, The dumb, mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics soothing pain. George Eliot, also, speaks of " that stage...

...fixed in the popular memory: "Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all/ ' For words, like "Nature, half reveal, And half conceal, the soul within.' 'There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.' 'Kind hearts are more...

...to the manufacturing interests of 'a district like Bradford ! To use Tennyson's beautiful couplet, " For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." Such actions reveal the ignorance we are skilful enough by words to conceal. But nature is not to be...

...thought the force of words ? The Poet, by Tennyson. Can words fully express the meaning? " I sometimes hold it half a sin, To put in words the grief I feel...nature, half reveal, And half conceal the soul within." "To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint."...

...saying of Donne: " He tames grief that fetters it in verse;" or with Tennyson he may have found that " For the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured...mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain." As by instinct he allied pathos with poetry; and many of his songs begin in the minor key, but sing...

...love, and boast, " Behold the man that loved and lost, But all he was is overworn." v. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel;...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. xxvn. I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and...

...round, using every sharp point as a facet to reflect some ray of light ; he says indeed, "I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel." And he speaks, in some of those fine wordpaintings in rich frames, of "darkening tho sanctity of his...

...utterly unable to understand this. We next see the Delicacy of true sorrow, when he says : ' I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel.' Words do it wrong: they only 'half reveal' while they 'half conceal' it. Shakespeare has a similar...

...darkeu'd eyes; With morning wakes the will, and cries, " Thou shalt not be the fool of loss." I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcoties, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the...