 EVE. DEEP on the convent-roof the snows Are sparkling to the moon: My breath to heaven like vapour goes : May my soul follow soon ! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the creeping hours That lead me to my...  The Christian Remembrancer - Page 571842Full view - About this book
 | Margaret Surrey - 1908 - 354 pages
...My breath to heaven in vapour goes — May my soul follow soon ! The shadows of the convent towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the...my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies, As this first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies. '"As these white robes are soiled and dark... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 340 pages
...My breath to heaven like vapour goes : May my soul follow soon ! The shadows of the convent-towers 5 Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the...my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies, 10 Or this first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are soil'd and dark,... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 pages
...My breath to heaven like vapour goes : May my soul follow soon ! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the...year That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are soiled and dark, To yonder shining ground ; As this pale taper's earthly spark, To yonder argent round... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1909 - 598 pages
...interchangeable may be seen by comparing Jb&xv, 15, *Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight/ with Tennyson's Make thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies. This brings us to the question of the influence of the Authorised Version upon subsequent English literature... | |
 | 1910 - 356 pages
...moon; My breath to heaven like vapour goes; May my soul follow soon! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the...first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies. 1* i A tall sedge. As these white robes are soil 'd and dark, To yonder shining ground ; As this pale... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer, Winifred Lucas Lockyer - 1910 - 244 pages
...p. 87. Fine as ice-ferns on January panes Made by a breath. Aylmei's Field, p. 146. Vol. II. p. 169. Make Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies. St. Agnes' Eve, p. 109. During frost the aqueous vapour in the air is reduced. Comes a vapour from... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1910 - 100 pages
...may be seen by comparing Job 15. 15, 'Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight,' with Tennyson's Make thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies. This brings us to the question of the influence of the Authorized Version upon subsequent English literature... | |
 | 1912 - 616 pages
...moon : My breath to heaven like vapor goes: May my soul follow soon! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the...year That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are soiled and dark, To yonder shining ground; As this pale taper's earthly spark, To yonder argent round;... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1912 - 314 pages
...My breath to heaven like vapour goes : May my soul follow soon ! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the...my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies, 10 Or this first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies. As these white robea are soiled and dark,... | |
 | Louis Frédéric Choisy - 1912 - 320 pages
...surhuMake Thou my Bpirit pure aod clear As are the frosty skies, As these wbite robes are soil'd ami dark, To yonder shining ground ; As this pale taper's...shows my soul before the Lamb, My spirit before Thee ; Break up the heavens, O Lord ! Draw tue, thy bride, a glittering star, In raiment white and cloan.... | |
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