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
| Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - English language - 1878 - 268 pages
...no distinction. 2. I send you here a sort of allegory. 3. Our island home is far beyond the sea. 4. Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might. 5. Your If is the only peace-maker: much virtue in If. 6. He is very prodigal of his ohs and ahs. 1.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1868 - 402 pages
...thou love me, cousin?" weeping, "I have loved thee long." Love took up the glass of Time, and turn d it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pages
...should do me wrong ; " Saying, " Dost thou love me, cousin ? " weeping, " I have loved thee long." Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his...Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chorda with might ; Sm< •« the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight. Many... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1869 - 498 pages
...should do me wrong; " Saying, " Dost thou love me, cousin? " weeping, " 1 have loved [thee long. " Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his...ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp oflife, and smote on ail the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, pass'd in... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...to the skies, And give resounding grace to all heaven's harmonies." COMUS. — Milton. Heptameter. "Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the...with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight." LOCKSLEY HALL. — Tennyson. "Sit not like a mourner, Brother! by the... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1869 - 716 pages
...that old time of generous and unselfish devotion, when • Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran Itself in golden Bands. ' Love took up the barp of Life, »Dd smote on all the chords with might; Smoto the chord of... | |
| Literature - 1891 - 1016 pages
...I luw'd 'er a vast sight moor fur it : reason why. And then listen to the hero of " Locksley Hall": Love took up the harp of Life and smote on all the...Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight. Or take the passion of exploration, the strong desire to push out across new seas into new worlds,... | |
| Nina Cole - 1870 - 320 pages
...PAGES OF THIS STOET, I NOW DEDICATE IT, IN MEMORY OF THE DATS WHEN IT WAS IN COURSE OF COMPLETION. Love took up the Harp of Life and smote on all the...with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that trembling passed in music out of sight TEJWYSON. Einen einz'gen vollen Becher Ohne Wermuth schenk' mir ein Einmal,... | |
| Ellen Wood - 1870 - 328 pages
...would acknowledge it amidst the bitterness of after life. " Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands, Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands." It could not last — speaking now only of the hour. One o'clock came all too soon ; when he had seemingly... | |
| Mrs. Henry Wood - 1870 - 268 pages
...contrary fashion, as it is in the nature of fate to do. ' Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it In his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands.' They would have lingered on until midnight, but at nearly ten o'clock out came Miss Annesley. She was... | |
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