 | Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton Marquis of Northampton - 1837 - 448 σελίδες
...sweeter, Than any thing on earth. A shadow flits before me — Not thou, but like to thee. Ah God ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. It leads me forth at Evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1838 - 862 σελίδες
...sweeter, Than anything on earth. A shadow flits before me — Not thou, but like to thee, Ah God ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all... | |
 | 1877 - 506 σελίδες
...bereavement is recent, and the chill of death pierces us to the bone, and we are saying, " Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." We are helplessly driven on to the shores of eternity, like sea- weed loosened from its hold, or the... | |
 | 1870 - 846 σελίδες
...beforehand to the longing cry — " Oh, Christ, that it were possible After long years to lee The goujs we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! " It is entitled " A Voice from Afar : " " Weep not for me: — Be blithe aa wont, nor tinge with... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1845 - 652 σελίδες
...sweeter Than any thing on earth ! A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee ; Oh, CHRIST! that it were possible, For one short hour, to see The souls we love, that they might tell in What and where they be ! It leads me forth at evening, And lightly winds... | |
 | 1875 - 676 σελίδες
...Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." flunciad, last lines. "Ah. Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." Tennyson's Matul, p. ii. iv. 3. " 0 that it were possible we might But hold some two days' conference... | |
 | 1895 - 666 σελίδες
..."Wood" and "code" are but indifferent rhymes. In the beautiful lines— Ab Christ, that it were penible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell as What and where they be — the sacred name was certainly not pronounced aa in "Christopher," for... | |
 | 1882 - 644 σελίδες
...precise meaning of this expression 1 — " To read between the line«." WILLIAM PLATT. " 0 Christ ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls of those we loved, that they Alight tell us where and what they be." [The memory of him] "passed away... | |
 | 1855 - 724 σελίδες
...sweeter Than any thing on earth. A shadow flits before mo, Not thou, but like to theu ; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. It leads me forth at evening It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe before me, When all my... | |
 | 1855 - 534 σελίδες
...sweeter Than any thing on earth. A shmlow flits hefore me, Not thnn, hut like to thee ; Ah Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour, to see...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white robe hefore me, When all... | |
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A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. 
