She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is corning, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near"; And the white rose weeps, "She is late"; The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear"; And the lily whispers, "I wait. Littell's Living Age - Page 331855Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 996 pages
...of satin and glimmer of p. .uls, i lily and PIT in i UK- : out. little head, sunning over with « 1 the flowers, and be their sun. There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion - flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear ; 910 She is coming, my life, my fate.... | |
 | George John Whyte-Melville - 1899 - 368 pages
...and glowing^than this description of a lover waiting for his mistress in her garden : — There falls a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate ; She is coming— my love — my dear ! She is coming — my life, my fate ! The red rose cries, She is near — she is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 996 pages
...done. In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls, Queen lily and rose in one; Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their...splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate She is coining, my dove, my dear ; She is coming, my life, my fate ; The red rose cries, " She is near, she... | |
 | Eleanor Vere Boyle, E. V. B. - 1900 - 270 pages
...human passion or story ; while the feeling breathed through such lines as in Tennyson's " Maud "— There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate, The red rose cries she is near, she is near, And the white rose weeps she is late. The larkspur listens,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 454 pages
...done, In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls, Queen lily and rose in one ; Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-Sower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate ; The red... | |
 | 1901 - 674 pages
...out, little head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. 106W ALFRED TENXYSON. There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, uiy dear; She is coming, my life, my fate ; The red rose cries, " She is near, she is near 5* And the... | |
 | 1901 - 694 pages
...increasingly dear to her loyal alumnre and increasingly notable among her sister colleges. SHE IS COMING. There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coining, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate ; The red rose cries, "She is near, she... | |
 | Osman Edwards - 1901 - 356 pages
...romantic blood these pale flowerets. No Japanese poet would conceive such a stanza as that in " Maud " — "There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate; The larkspur listens ' I hear,' ' I hear ' ; And the lily whispers, ' I wait.' " He knows that the... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, George Henry Warner - 1902 - 568 pages
...xxv— 915 In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls. Queen lily and rose in one; Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their...She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, H She is near, she is near ; * And the white rose weeps, <( She is late ; " The larkspur listens, HI... | |
 | 1902 - 384 pages
...done, In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls, Queen lily and rose in one ; Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. There has fallen a splendid tear She is coming, my life, my fate ; The red rose cries, ' She is near, she is near'; From the passion-flower... | |
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