 I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, — How long ago I may not know : But just when at that swallow's...  Supervised study - Page 210by Alfred Lawrence Hall-Quest - 1916 - 433 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1870 - 786 pages
...finely suggested : — "SUDDEN LIGHT. 44 1 have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : 1 know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. 44 You have been mine before, — How long ago I may not know : But just when at... | |
 | Literature - 1870 - 444 pages
...been given to the world these many years : SUDDEN LIGHT. " I have been here before, But when or how 1 cannot tell : I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet, keen sme'.l. The sighing sound, the llghtc iround the shore. " You have been mine before, — How long ago... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 pages
...heart, Yet held us tenderly apart ; She said—" Auf Wiedersehen ! " JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. SUDDEN LIGHT. §HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot...The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, — How long ago I may not know : But just when at that... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1878 - 462 pages
...said—" Auf Wiedersehm I " JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. XVII. SUDDEN LIGHT. Gj'g HAVE been here before, *\ Po But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond...The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, — How long ago I may not know : But just when at that... | |
 | William Sharp - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 474 pages
...knowledge, seen hitherto either place or countenance, or experienced exactly the same environment. " I have been here before, But when or how I cannot...The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. " You have been mine before, — How long ago I may not know : But just when at that... | |
 | Hesperus - 1882 - 238 pages
...woods wail like echoes from the sea." SUDDEN LIGHT T HAVE BEEN here before, But when or how I can not tell : I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. B.:T ;Mst whcr. -t :r.it sw:ii'.,.«w's soar V....r sr:V :urn'd »o. S. rr.c \si"... | |
 | 1882 - 816 pages
...transfigured loveliness as characterises ' The Woodspurge,' ' Love- Lily,' ' Sudden Light,' with its Grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. His philosophy finds impulse in a neglected spray of honeysuckle, or lingers over... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1882 - 1190 pages
...transfigured loveliness as characterises ' The Woodspurge,' ' Love-Lily,' ' Sudden Light,' with its Grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. His philosophy finds impulse in a neglected spray of honeysuckle, or lingers over... | |
 | North American review - 1884 - 662 pages
...as if it had been borrowed." Rossetti expresses the idea beautifully in one of the sonnets of the " House of Life" : " I have been here before, But when...The sweet, keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. "You have been mine before, — How long ago I may not know : But just when at that... | |
 | George Hawkins Pember - Bible and spiritualism - 1884 - 504 pages
...places has been known to flash across the mind — an idea which DG Rossetti thus expresses ; — " I have been here before, But when, or how, I cannot...The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. " You have been mine before—- How long I may not know : But just when at that swallow's... | |
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