 I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies, The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics,...  Works: The princess. In memoriam - Page 137by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1904Full view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary -headed DEAD, IN A FOREIGN LAND. FAIR ship, that from the Italian shore Sailest the placid ocean-plains With... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er,' Like coarsest clothes against the ' cold ; But that large grief which these en-; Is given in outline and no more. • ONE writes, that "Other friends remain," That " Loss is common... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like, dull narcotics, numbing pain. In word?, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...enfold Is given in outline and no more. VI. ONE writes, th.it " Other friends remain," That " Loss is common to the race," — And common is the commonplace,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 330 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...these enfold Is given in outline and no more. VI. NE writes, that 'Other friends remain,' That 'Loss is common to the race' — And common is the commonplace,... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these inlbld Is giveu in outline, and no more. VI ONE writes that " other friends remain," That " loss is... | |
 | Theology - 1873 - 826 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. " In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more." (v.) Again, in reply to the objection which some would be disposed to make to the intrusion of a private... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 ds ; Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring Hoods. My iu outline and no more. ВГ.ЛП, IN A FOREIGN LAND. FAIR ship, that from the Italian shore Sailcst... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873 - 350 pages
...against the cold ; Bnt that large grief which these enfold Is given in ontline and no more. VL Oui writes, that "Other friends remain," That " Loss is common to the race," — And common is the commouplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common wonld not make My own less... | |
 | William Page Roberts - Sermons, English - 1874 - 198 pages
...comforted is too wide and deep to be satisfied with the maxim of the optimist, or the sacred platitude — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. The prophet of old times was not ignorant of the human heart when he said of her whose child was dead,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1875 - 264 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...common to the race' — And common is the commonplace, That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more : Too common ! Never morning wore... | |
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