Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Poems - Page 95by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
| M E. Hammond - 1858 - 352 pages
...luxuriance of an Italian spring — gladdened the earth once more, the cousins were declared lovers, — " Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his...Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight." The favourite haunt of the lovers was the classic hill of Fiesole. The bright April mornings found... | |
| 1855 - 338 pages
...poising sweep of the lyric power that sustains it : — Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken,...might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, And her whisper... | |
| George Brimley - English literature - 1858 - 376 pages
...poising sweep of the lyric power that sustains it : — Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken,...might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, And her whisper... | |
| 1856 - 416 pages
...poising sweep of the lyric power that sustains it : — Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken,...with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, And her whisper... | |
| Mary Virginia Terhune - 1858 - 272 pages
...Mayazine. 600052725R MOSS-SIDE MARION HARLAND,. OE Off "ALOITE," AND "THE HIDDEN PATH.' ' Love took up tbe harp of life, and smote On all the chords with might, — Smote the chord of Seif, that trembling passed In music out of sight," LONDON: G. ROUTLEDGE & CO., FARRINGDON STREET.... | |
| Conway Keith - 1859 - 346 pages
...be propitious, Miss Villiers, and the two Mr. Villiers, said" Good bye," and departed. CHAPTER VIII. Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands, Every moment lightly shaken, saw itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all its chords with might,'... | |
| 1863 - 568 pages
...[No. 30. MARGARET STOURTON: OS, ani as a CHAPTER XXIV. " Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment lightly shaken...the chords with might — Smote the chord of self, which, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Tennyson. It was a December afternoon, — Christmas... | |
| Francis Meredith - 1860 - 306 pages
...peerage) and ten thousand a year." CHAPTER III. WHEREIN THE EEADER GETS AN INKLING OF THINGS IN GENERAL. " Love took up the glass of time, and turn'd it in his...moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands." TENNYSON. THE course of events (which has hitherto lingered, as I am afraid my readers may some of... | |
| Charlotte Maria Tucker - 1860 - 314 pages
...establishment ? Would it be with her, as Tennyson describes in some of his most beautiful lines — •" Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might — Smote the chord of self, which trembling passed in music out of sight !" "Would marriage with her, as with Ondine, give to the... | |
| Henry Robert Reynolds - 1860 - 326 pages
...the little boat floated idly under the shadow of the Righi. CHAPTER XII. THE MEETING OF THE WATERS. " Love took up the Harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, which trembling, passed in music out of sight." LOCKSLEY HALL. ON a bright May morning, a solitary... | |
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