 Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young: And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy...  THE GOLDEN TREASURY - Page 32by FRANCIS T. PALGRAVE - 1906Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...mortals, old or young : And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,...The silver answer rang — ' Not Death, but Love.' IV. Thou hast thy calling to some palace floor, Most gracious singer of .high poems ! where The dancers... | |
 | 1883 - 528 pages
...mortals, old or young. And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw in gradual vision through my tears The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,...there The silver answer rang — " Not Death, but Love ! " " The passage of Theocritus here alluded to is in Syracusan Gossips, 102. ' STUDIES IN DRYDEN.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1884 - 654 pages
...mortals, old or young : And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,...The silver answer rang — 'Not Death, but Love.' IV. Thou hast thy calling to some palace floor, Most gracious singer of high poems ! where The dancers... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1884 - 560 pages
...mortals, old or young : And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,...The silver answer rang, — " Not Death, but Love." BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said, — Himself, beside Thee... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1884 - 284 pages
...mortals, old or young : And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,...The silver answer rang, — " Not Death, but Love." II BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said, — Himself, beside Thee... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 pages
...mortals, old or young : A.nd, as I mused it in bis antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,...The silver answer rang, — "Not Death, but Love." Thou hast thy calling to some palace floor, Most gracious singer of high poems ! where The dancers... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...mortals, old and young : and, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision, through my tears, the sweet, sad Years — the melancholy Years...the silver answer rang : — " Not Death, but Love!" 88.— COMFORT.— Mrs. EB Browning. Speak low to me, my Saviour ! low and sweet — from out the hallelujahs,... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...tears. The sweet, sad years, the melanchol) years, — Those of my own life, who hy tutn? had fiung A shadow across me. Straightway I was 'ware. So weeping,...how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me buckward by the hair; And a voice said in mastery while I strove, — "Guess now who holds thee?"—... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 686 pages
...mortals, old or young : And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,...— Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shado\v across me. Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1886 - 642 pages
...or young; • And, as I mused it in his antique . — - tongue, I saw in gradual vision, through my tears, • The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,...there The silver answer rang, " Not Death, but Love." BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said, — Himself, beside Thee... | |
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