...The Red Court Farm . To face page 224 Last Words written by Mrs. Henry Wood . ,, 273 PART I CHAPTER I I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. " ELLEN PRICE — afterwards Mrs. Henry Wood — was born in the city of Worcester when the century...

...thoughts, or our truest selves, to another, by the imperfect medium of human speech. Tennyson says : " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." And this is a truth concerning which we all have more or less of sa<J experiences, in our failures...

...he tames it that fetters it in verse." So Donne. And Tennyson similarly in the well-known stanza — "But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics lulling pain." The section of Donne's poems entitled " Songs and Sonnets " is almost wholly devoted...

..."words that weep and tears that speak. "Remember the words of Alfred Lord Tennyson in In Memoriam: I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. (7) The use of high-sounding words with which the congregation is not familiar accomplishes no good....

...stairs so quickly he virtually leaped into Lionel's lap. "Oooh," Bert gasped. "Like tot-tal-ly haunted!" But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics numbing pain. — Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850 Lionel and Bert refused to go back upstairs that night, so I...

...harmonious impulsion. No matter how perfect it may be, something indefinable is lost in the expression. "For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." as Tennyson truly wrote of the expression of grief at the loss of a loved one. We realise the thoughts...

...Victoria to offer Tennyson the laureateship. To Speak About Grief Language fails to express grief. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. The "sorrow of language" writes Merleau-Ponty, is that words cannot express all we want to say. How...

...feelings and thoughts, and far more difficult to convey those of others. Tennyson was right when he wrote: For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. I am writing in a rather informal but hopefully objective manner. Many of those who have played an...

...the rocks as they do Who know how to ride this tumult safely And play its perils like a game. (22) But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. (5.5-8) Sarton's poem is no "mechanic exercise." She quickly abandons the meter and rhyme of "A Farewell"...

...reiteration, the animating principle of such poems as the Rubaiyat and Tennyson's In Memoriam, where we find "A use in measured language lies; / The sad mechanic exercise, / Like dull narcotics, numbing pain." The poems are in fairly uncomplicated language, except for no. 507, which situates its "mountain" in...