 ... grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap...  In Memoriam: Michael Henry Simpson - Page 11876 - 150 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1850 - 640 pages
...narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline, and no more. Soon after the poet alludes to the well-meant common-places by which it is so often sought to console... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pages
...narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline, and no more." — P. 5. In another place, he says that his spirit can find relief in words only when the tides of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. V. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. v. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is... | |
 | 1850 - 1050 pages
...narcotics, numbing pain. " In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline, and no more." (The italics throughout, we may observe, will be ours, as indicating what vie consider "beauties.")... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pages
...narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. VI. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 pages
...narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. TI. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race '—• And common... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 pages
...numbing pain. " In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more." The deeper passion of grief finds no such utterance, we know. No man can both feel and speak it, for... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1859 - 474 pages
...narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore,... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 pages
...narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more." The deeper passion of grief finds no such utterance, we know. No man can both feel and speak it, for... | |
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