Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Poems - Sivu 95tekijä(t) Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Ellen Wood - 1864 - 368 sivua
...Chesney, and she had been glad that it should never pass. Love took up the glass of time and turned it in his glowing hands Every moment, lightly shaken,...sands. Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all its cords with might ; Smote the chord of self, which, trembling, passed in music out of sight. CHAPTER... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1864 - 514 sivua
...Sayiag, ''Dust thou love me, cousin?" wceping, "1 have luvcd thce [long. " Love took up the glass ofTime, and turn'd it in his glowing hands; Every moment,...ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp oflife, andsmoteonalltho chords with might ; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, pass'd in musiuout... | |
| Frederick Martin - 1865 - 318 sivua
...which suddenly broke in upon him. John Clare fell in love. ' Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken,...Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.' John Clare's first love — the deepest, noblest, and purest love of his whole life — was for ' Mary,'... | |
| Henry Washington Hilliard - 1865 - 556 sivua
...read the future. CHAPTER XV. '* LOVE took up the glass of time, and turned it in his glowing handa ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden...might ; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight." TENNYSON. we submit ourselves to an ordeal which is to prove us worthy... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 sivua
...Saying, " Dost thou love me, cousin ?" weeping, " I have Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken,...with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, And her whisper... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 398 sivua
...thee long." Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, hghtly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the...might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, And her whisper... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 sivua
...should do me wrong ; " Saying, " Dost thou love me, cousin ? " weeping, " I have loved thee long." Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in....Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden winds. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might ; SUN "5 the chord of... | |
| Dennis de Berdt Hovell - 1866 - 138 sivua
...to sacrifice the claims of worldly prudence and self-interest. He took up the Glass of Time, turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. He took up the Harp of Life, struck upon its chords with might, Smote the chord of Self, which, tremhling,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 406 sivua
...thou love me, cousin?" weeping, "I have loved thee long." Love took up the glass of Time, and turn d it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that,... | |
| 1866 - 650 sivua
...The thought of selfishness has no place here. Tennyson's fine conception is exquisitely true : — " Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chorda with might ; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, paas'd in music out of sight." The institution... | |
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