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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. "
Maud, and Other Poems - Page 89
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 160 pages
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The Tribute: A Collection of Miscellaneous Unpublished Poems by Various Authors

Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton Marquis of Northampton - 1837 - 448 pages
...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...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...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 79

Edmund Burke - 1838 - 862 pages
...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...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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 66

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...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1877 - 506 pages
...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...
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The Living Age, Volume 107

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...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 25

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1845 - 652 pages
...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...
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Notes and Queries

1875 - 676 pages
...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...
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Notes and Queries

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...
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 5, Part 1

1855 - 724 pages
...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...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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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature, Volume 4

1855 - 534 pages
...kisses sweeter, sweeter Than any thing on earth. A shmlow flits hefore me, Not thnn, hut like to thee ; Ah Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour,...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 hefore me, When all...
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