 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...  The Grove: A Monthly Miscellany - Page 791891Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, How long ago I do not know; But just when, at that swallow's soar, Your...turned so, Some veil did fall, I knew it all of yore. Before may be again : Oh ! press my eyes into yonr neck. Shall wo not be forever lain Thus for Love's... | |
 | American essays - 1870 - 786 pages
...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...so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore." And here is this poetry of the nerves still more skilfully caught : — " This is her picture as she... | |
 | Poems - English poetry - 1863 - 88 pages
...smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, How long ago I do not know: But just when, at that swallow's soar, Your...turned so, Some veil did fall, I knew it all of yore. Before may be again: Oh! press my eyes into your neck. Shall we not be for ever lain Thus for Love's... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 pages
...said—" Auf Wiedersehen ! " JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. SUDDEN LIGHT. §HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond the door,...so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before ? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1878 - 462 pages
...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 door,...so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before ? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1878 - 418 pages
...Wiedersehen!" JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. XVII. SUDDEN LIGHT. CTg HAVE been here before, 6j ro But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The...swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before ? And shall not thus time's eddying flight... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - English poetry - 1881 - 320 pages
...fear takes flight, Shall leap against my side. SUDDEN LIGHT. I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The...swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before ? And shall not thus time's eddying flight... | |
 | North American review - 1884 - 662 pages
...beautifully in one of the sonnets of the " House of Life" : " I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell ; I know the grass beyond the door,...so, Some veil did fall,— I knew it all of yore." Walter Scott, too, spoke of it as the " sentiment of preexistence "; and owing to the natural tendency... | |
 | George Hawkins Pember - Bible and spiritualism - 1884 - 504 pages
...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 soar...so, Some veil did fall — I knew it all of yore. " Then, now — perchance again ! O round mine eyes your tresses shake ! Shall we not lie as we have... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Blind tooled bindings - 1886 - 588 pages
...fear takes flight, Shall leap against my side. SUDDEN LIGHT. I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond the door,...so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before ? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love... | |
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