 She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple...  Maud: And Other Poems - Page 30by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 348 pages
...And the lily whispers, " I wait." 3d. She is coming, my own, my sweet ; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. PART II. I. fault was mine, the fault was mine " — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still, Plucking... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...And the lily whispers, " I wait." She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so a;ry a tread, Sly heart would hear her, and beat, Were it earth in an...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. [From Maud.} GO NOT, HAPPY OAT. Go not, happy day, From the shining fields, Go not, happy day, Till... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
..."^ And the lily whispers, " I wait." She is coming, my own, my sweet ; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. / xxm i " THE fault was mine, the fault was mine " — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still,... | |
 | Elaine Jordan - 1988 - 212 pages
...passed into the conditional 'if only': She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. Even in the swoon of imaginative death the heart is still preternaturally alert - 'my dust' is contradicted... | |
 | Jessica Amanda Salmonson - 1989 - 308 pages
...the lily whispers, 'I wait.' "She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red." During the singing of the first stanza Raphael kept his position on the sofa, but the second had not... | |
 | Arthur F. Marotti - 1993 - 404 pages
...becomes eternity, the ground becomes air: She is coming, my own, my sweet Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. (916-23) On the formal level, space functions to restrain full temporal unfolding and expansion too.... | |
 | Andreas Fischer - 1994 - 276 pages
...it but the human voice" (Ricks 560): She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. (I.XXIIjd. 916-924; Ricks 563) The singing mind is going wrong, singing itself to death, rhyming itself... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson - 1994 - 644 pages
...lily whispers, 'I wait.' XI She is coining, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My In-art would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. Maud: Part 2 i 'The fault was mine, the fault was mine' Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1995 - 244 pages
...And the lily whispers, 'I wait.' 11 She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat. Were it earth in an earthy bed; 70 My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her... | |
 | Marion Zimmer Bradley - 1999 - 420 pages
...Alison had turned the subject. Something dark. Something dangerous. BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 1961 My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in...an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat; Had / lain for a century dead; — ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON THE NEW YEAR BEGAN BADLY — THE UNITED STATES... | |
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