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
 | Cora Marsland - 1902 - 272 pages
...rose in one; Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. 10. There has fallen 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 near "; And... | |
 | Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long - 1902 - 432 pages
...rose in one ; Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. X There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. 60 She is coming, my dove, my dear ; She is coming, my life, my fate ; The red rose cries, " She is... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - 1984 - 388 pages
...scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road. Those words — There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear — sang in my blood as I stepped quickly along towards Headingley. And then, switching off into the... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - 1989 - 136 pages
...scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road. Those words— There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dearsang in my blood as I stepped quickly along towards Headingley. And then, switching off into the... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - 1993 - 122 pages
...ocupar nuestra mente y hacernos mover las piernas a su compás por el camino. Hé aquí esas palabras: There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my aove, my dear me encendían la sangre, al caminar presurosa a Headingley. Y luego, pasando a la otra... | |
 | Alfred Arteaga - 1994 - 316 pages
...essay on the "pathetic fallacy" and quotes lines almost identical to these, but from Tennyson's Maud: "There has fallen a splendid tear/ From the passion-flower at the gate." 8 Interpretations that suggest that the tears can only be human, and that these tears have been shed... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1995 - 244 pages
...rose in one; Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. in There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. f>n She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, 'She is near,... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - 1998 - 488 pages
...in a bunch, it seemed possible that the impediment lay there. As he no longer hums under his breath, 'There has fallen a splendid tear from the passion-flower at the gate', when Phoebe crosses the beach, and she no longer replies, 'My heart is like a singing bird whose nest... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - 1998 - 324 pages
...idea of the talking-flowers is based on Tennyson's Maud (1855), Pt. I, Section XXII, esp. stanza x: 'There has fallen a splendid tear / From the passion-flower at the gate,' etc. Page 139. the Rose: Rhoda Caroline Anne Liddell (1858-1947). Page 140. a Violet: Violet Constance... | |
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