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" A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee: Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us, What and where they be. "
Poems: In Two Volumes - Page 377
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863
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The odes of Horace, tr. into Engl. verse, with a life and notes, by T. Martin

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1861 - 424 pages
...have gone up from the Pagan breast, for which our great contemporary poet has found a voice ! Oh God, that it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us, What and where they be ! Indeed, a belief in a life beyond the present, in which the perplexities of this life shall be resolved,...
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Wissenschaftliche grammatik der englischen sprache, Volumes 1-2

Eduard Fiedler, Karl Sachs - 1861 - 766 pages
...ittinam: t> (hat 'twere j.ossible öfter lorty (/rief and pain to ßnd the arms (Te. I. 264) und id.: ah Christ, that it were possible for one short hour to see the souls we loved; I wish'dl had been (B. Fl. 11.370), would to heaven thou hadst passed by (S. Journey I. 137), here...
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The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Etc: Two Volumes in One

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter, sweeter Than anything on earth. 3. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a°cold white robe before me, When all my spirit reels At the shouts, the leagues of lights, And the...
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The Congregational Review, Volume 2

1862 - 692 pages
...memory and affection for its lost treasure makes the heart ache with the vividness of its delineation. " A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. " It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all...
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Selections from Various Sources

Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 254 pages
...mountains of pride, and settle on the lowly vallies of the humble in heart." Archbishop Leighton. "On Christ ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell What — and where they be." Teniyson. " BE patient : your wrongs are your strength." Gen. Pomeroy...
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The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, Etc ..., Volume 2

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 414 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter, sweeter Than anything on earth. 3. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell as What and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white...
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Cometh Up as a Flower: An Autobiography

Rhoda Broughton - 1867 - 396 pages
...mortal fingers which grasps so at the universal sympathies of this whole tearful world, as this: — "Oh Christ! that it were possible For one short hour to...loved, that they might tell us "What and where they be ! " Before, when my old man had gone away from me, though he was beyond the reach of my fond arms,...
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Poems, Volume 2

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 pages
...birth, We stood tranced in long embraces Mixt with kisses sweeter sweeter Than anything on earth. 3A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all...
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A Study of the Works of Alfred Tennyson

Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 262 pages
...dark heart, However weary, a spark of will Not to be trampled out." When he knows her dead, he says, " Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." And after he recovers from his madness, he says, " It fell at a time of year When the face of night...
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Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English ..., Volume 5

1868 - 688 pages
...before me — Noi thou, but like io thcc. Oh, Christ! thai ii were possible For one abort hour to sco The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.' are from Teunyson's Mand.— Also Nellie, that the lines— 1 The Almighty's breath spake ont in death,...
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