 | Henry Schütz Wilson - 1878 - 402 pages
...Rhymes floated, like music from yEolian harps, fitfully through my brain. The lines came once — * * "When my light is low, When the blood creeps, and...heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow," and the fine passage struck me as deeply, uncomfortably true. I did not sleep o' nights, owing to pain... | |
 | PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...stanzas of true sublimity he invokes the spirit of his friend to stand by him in the hour of death. Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps,...scattering dust, And Life, a Fury slinging flame. Deep shadows still fall upon the page, but the light nevertheless increases. At length, in No. LIV.,... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1879 - 464 pages
...stanzas of true sublimity he invokes the spirit of his friend to stand by him in the hour of death. Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps,...scattering dust, And Life, a Fury slinging flame. Deep shadows still fall upon the page, but the light nevertheless increases. At length, in No. LIV.,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1879 - 242 pages
...all fancied hopes and fears Ay me, the sorrow deepens down, Whose muffled morions blindly drown 'E near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps,...maniac scattering dust, And Life, a Fury slinging dame. Be near me when my faith is dry, And men the flies of latter spring, That lay their eggs, and... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...blindly drown The bases of m; lile in tearsL. BE near me when my light is low. When the blood ereeps, and the nerves prick And tingle ; and the heart is sick, And all the wheeht of Being slow. Be near me when the sensuous frame ls rack'd with pangs that conquer trust; And... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 218 pages
...which determined the length of the thread. See ' Horoscope,' in Webs. Unabrulged Diet. Tennyson calls time, ' a maniac scattering dust,' and life, 'a Fury, slinging flame.' (In Memoriam, xlix. 2.) Why 'blind' ? Abhorred shears, called by Spenser the 'cursed knife.' Faerie Queene, IV. ii.... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 216 pages
...which determined the length of the thread. See ' Horoscope,' in Webs. Unabridged Diet. Tennyson calls time, ' a maniac scattering dust,' and life, 'a Fury, slinging flame.' (In Memoriam, xlix. 2.) Why 'blind'? Abhorred shears, called by Spenser the 'cursed knife.' Faerie Qmene, IV. ii.... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 232 pages
...which determined the length of the thread. See ' Horoscope,' in Webs. Unabridged Diet. Tennyson calls time, ' a maniac scattering dust,' and life, 'a Fury, slinging flame.' (In Memoriam, xlix. 2.) Why 'blind'? Abhorred shears, called by Spenser the 'cursed knife.' Faerie Queene, IV. ii.... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 362 pages
...so ; and his weary spirit at last exhales its sorrow, its longing, and its fatigue, in prayer •. " Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps,...scattering dust ; And Life, a Fury slinging flame. Be near me when my faith is dry, And men the flies of latter spring, That lay their eggs, and sting,... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 356 pages
...is so ; and his weary spirit at last exhales its sorrow, its longing, and its fatigue, in prayer : " Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps,...scattering dust ; And Life, a Fury slinging flame. Be near me when my faith is dry, And men the flies of latter spring, That lay their eggs, and sting,... | |
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Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle ; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow. 
