 ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair; And a voice said in mastery, while I strove, — 'Guess now who holds thee?' - 'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, — 'Not Death, but Love.  Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 27edited by - 1857Full view - About this book
 | 1857 - 602 pages
...me backward by the hair, And a voice said, in mastery while I strove : 'Guess now who holds thee ?' ''Death!' I said. But there, The silver answer rang:...sympathize. Mrs. Browning says, in her preface to this poein, that it " contains the impressions of the writer upon events in Tuscany, of which she was a... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850 - 596 pages
...backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery while I strove, . . . "Guess now who holds thee?" — "Death!" I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . " Not Death, but Love." II. BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said ; Himself, beside Thee... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1851 - 252 pages
...backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery while I strove, . . "Guess now who holds thee?" — "Death!" I said. But, there, The silver answer rang . . " Not Death, but Love." n. BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said ; Himself, beside Thee... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1851 - 252 pages
...by the hair; And a voice said in mastery while I strove, . . "Guess now who holds theef—"Death!" I said. But, there, The silver answer rang . . " Not Death, but Love." II. BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said; Himself, beside Thee... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853 - 508 pages
...backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery while I strove, . . 'Guess now who holds thee ? ' — 'Death!' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang . . ' Not Death, but Love.' BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said ; Himself, beside Thee speaking... | |
 | 1861 - 502 pages
...backward by the hair, And a voice said in mastery while l strove, . . . "Guess now who holds thee?" " Death!" I said. But there, The silver answer rang — "Not Death, but Love." This -article is already too long, and yet, how little have we said, how much remains to be written... | |
 | 1862 - 610 pages
...drew me backward by the hair, And a voice said in mastery as I strove, " Guess now who holds thee ?" " Death," I said. But there The silver answer rang, " Not Death, but Love." Although it is Love and not Death that has caught her, the startled spirit urges her unfitness for... | |
 | 1862 - 718 pages
...backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery while I strove, . . . " Guess now who holds thee ?" " Death !" I said. But, there; The silver answer rang, ..." Not Death, but Love." v. I lift my heavy heart up solemnly, As once Electra her sepulchral urn, And, looking in thine eyes,... | |
 | 1862 - 712 pages
...backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery while I strove, . . . " Guess now who holds thee ?" " Death !" I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, ..." Not Death, but Love." v. I lift my heavy heart up solemnly, As once Electra her sepulchral urn, And, looking in thine eyes,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 420 pages
...backward by the hair, And a voice said in mastery while I strove, . . 'Guess now who holds thee?'— 'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang . . 'Not Death, but Love.' BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thouhast said, — Himself, beside Thee speaking,... | |
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