 | Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton Marquis of Northampton - 1837 - 448 pages
...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 souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. It leads me forth at Evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1838 - 862 pages
...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 souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all... | |
 | 1838 - 556 pages
...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. ' Do... | |
 | 1877 - 506 pages
...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 souls we 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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1845 - 888 pages
...evening, ED. KMICXIRBOCCIX. For one short hour, to see The souls we love, that they might tell in And lightly winds and steals In a cold: white robe before...all my spirit reels At the shouts, the leagues of light, The roaring of the wheels! Half in dreams 1 sorrow after The hand, the lip, the eyes, Half the... | |
 | 1875 - 676 pages
...the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." flunciad, last lines. "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." Tennyson's Matul, p. ii. iv. 3. " 0 that it were possible we might But hold some two days' conference... | |
 | 1895 - 666 pages
..."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 pages
...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 souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. It leads me forth at evening It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all my... | |
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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. 
