 | Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...as we now proceed to give. Our first quotation explains and vindicates the conception of the poem : I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. B,ut, for the unquiet... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...statement, that he writes not to utter his grief, but to divert the mind from the sense of pain. " 1 sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half reveal, And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1863 - 524 pages
...shall see Him as He is, but then we shall be like Him. Now we must see Him " through a glass darkly." " For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." We could not bear to see him face to face. He must veil his Godhead or we should die. To favoured men... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...nameless trouble cross All night below the darken'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the...nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measur'd language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...statement, that he writes not to utter his grief, but to divert the mind from the sense of pain. " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half reveal, And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 550 pages
...statement that he writes not to utter his grief, but to divert the mind from the sense of pain.. " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...darkened eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, " Thou shall not be the fool of loss." T. 1 SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...nameless trouble cross All night below the darken'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, IV. 1 SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet... | |
 | Periodicals - 1851 - 724 pages
...unburden the grief-laden soul. Shelley says, and truly : — Hear Tennyson in illustration : — " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in. words the grief 1 feel ; Fur words, like nature, hilf reveal And half conceal the .«oui w ithiii. " But. for the unquiet... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...darken' d eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, ' Thou shalt not be the fool of loss.' V. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet... | |
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I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics,... 
