 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
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...like vapor goes : May my soul follow soon 1 The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the suowy sward, Still creeping with the creeping hours That...pure and clear As are the frosty skies, Or this first suowdrop of the year That in iny bosom lies. As these white robes are soiled and dark. To yonder shining... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...My breath to heaven like vapor goes : May my soul follow soon 1 The shadows of the con vent- 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... | |
 | 1871 - 850 pages
...My breath to heaven like vapor goes, May шу 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, On this first snow-drop of the year That in my bosom lies. ' As these whit* robes ore soil'd and dark,... | |
 | 1871 - 314 pages
...: 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 creeping hours That lead me to ray Lord : Make Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies, Or this first snowdrop of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...sward, Still creeping with the ereeping honrs That lead me to my Lord : Make Thon my spirit pnre nnd clear As are the frosty skies, Or this first snowdrop of the year That in my hosom lies. As these white rohes are soiled and dark. To yonder shining gronnd ; As this pale taper's... | |
 | Passion-flower (fict.name.) - 1872 - 392 pages
...to make even the most thoughtless think, and as Agnes stood there she softly repeated the lines : ' As these white robes are soil'd and dark To yonder shining ground, Or this faint taper's earthly spark To yonder argent round, So shines my soul before the Lamb, My spirit... | |
 | 1873 - 294 pages
...give you joy." Then, before she could ask him, he continued, " I think this was what you wanted : 1 Make Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty...spark, To yonder argent round : So shows my soul before th« Lamb, My spirit before Thee ; So in this earthly house I am, To that I hope to be. Brent up the... | |
 | Living voices - 1873 - 588 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 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... | |
 | 1874 - 686 pages
...: 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... | |
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