Yet if some voice that man could trust Should murmur from the narrow house, 'The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies : nor is there hope in dust : ' Might I not say? 'Yet even here, But for one hour, O Love, I strive To keep so sweet a thing alive... Cambridge Essays - Page 2791856Full view - About this book
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...XCVIII. ; from XCIX. to CIIL; from CIV. toCXXXI. ON Stanza .XXXV., Verse 3, he said : — The moanings of the homeless sea, The sound of streams that swift or slow Draw down Ionian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be. The vastness of the future — the enormity of... | |
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...murmur from the narrow house : The cheeks drop in ; the body bows ; Man dies : nor is there hope in dust : Might I not say, yet even here, But for one...The sound of streams that swift or slow Draw down Ionian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be ; And Love would answer with a sigh, ' The sound... | |
| 1850 - 654 pages
...narrow house : The cheeks drop in ; the body bows; " Might I not say, yet even here, But for one Lour, O Love, I strive To keep so sweet a thing alive—...The sound of streams that swift or slow Draw down JEnonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be he : " And Love would answer with a sigh, ' The... | |
| 1850 - 662 pages
...: The Intuitive Evidence of Immortality, 553 " Might I not say, yet even here, But for one hour, 0 Love, I strive To keep so sweet a thing alive —...The sound of streams that swift or slow Draw down ,/Enonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be he : " And Love would answer with a sigh, ' The... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...murmur from the narrow house : The cheeks drop in ; the body bows ; Man dies : nor is there hope in dust : Might I not say, yet even here, \ But for one hour, O Love, I strive fl To keep so sweet a thing alive ? But I should turn mine ears and hear The meanings of the homeless... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...murmur from the narrow house : The cheeks drop in ; the body bows ; Man dies : nor is there hope in dust : Might I not say, yet even here, But for one hour, 0 Love, I strive To keep so sweet a thing alive ? But I should turn mine ears and hear The meanings... | |
| 1850 - 744 pages
...murmur from the narrow house: The cheeks drop in ; the body bows ; Man dies : nor is there hope in dust. Might I not say, yet even here, But for one hour, О love ! I strive To keep so sweet a thing alive ? But I should turn mine ears and hear The meanings... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...murmur from the narrow house : The cheeks drop in ; the body bows ; Man dies : nor is there hope in dust : Might I not say, yet even here, But for one hour, 0 Love, I strive To keep so sweet a thing alive ? But I should turn mine ears and hear The meanings... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 pages
...murmur from the narrow house: The cheeks drop in; the body bows ; Man dies : nor is there hope in duat: Might I not say, yet even here, But for one hour,...The sound of streams that swift or slow Draw down Ionian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be ; And Love would answer with a sigh, ' The sound... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pages
...murmur from the narrow house : The cheeks drop in ; the body bows : Man dies : nor is there hope in dust : Might I not say, yet even here, But for one...thing alive ? But I should turn mine ears and hear The moanings of the homeless sea, The sound of streams that swift or slow Draw down ^Eonian hills, and... | |
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