...manhood and thyself ; Lay thy sweet hands in mine and trust to me.' FROM 'IN MEMORIAM.'* v. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise,...

...people, such as these — " 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Thau never to have loved at all." " For words, like Nature, half reveal, And half conceal, the soul within." " Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." 7. ELIZABETH BAERETT BARRETT,...

...people, such as these— " '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." " Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." 7. ELIZABETH BARRETT BARRETT,...

...now hope for ; lasting satisfactions, which will make " memory a glory-haunted place." " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; 1 For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam...

...reflex of it in the little mirror of himself. — THOS. CARLYLE: Jean Paul Richter. 16. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. — TENNYSON : In Memoriam. 17. I am always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if...

...they cannot give it such expression in formal words as will make it plain to the unsympathetic ear: " For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." The wealth of affection and the depth of tenderness in their warm hearts can never be recognized except...

...for the sake of final wholeness. In this respect, humor carries out the Tennysonian principle — " For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within." To this extent, at least, Talleyrand's half-truth, " that language is the art of concealing thought...

...rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.— Moore. For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within.— Teanyton. Yes, Ellen, when disguised I stray In life's more low but happier way, Tis under name which...

...Burnt POEMS OF L1FE—SORKOW A\D DEATH. Selections From "In Memonam." GRIEF UNSPEAKABLE. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel;...lies; The sad mechanic exercise. Like dull narcotics, Dumbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er. Like coarsest clothes against the cold; But...

...whom I found so fair. I trust he lives in Thee, and there I find him worthier to be loved, I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. The path by which we twain did go, Which led by tracts that pleased us well, Thro' four sweet years...