 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 135by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 170 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...Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race'And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. *. .- B That loss is common... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 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...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. ONE writes, that ' ' Other friends remain, " That " Loss is common to the race " — And common is... | |
 | Rev. John Reid - Grief - 1875 - 406 pages
...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 unfold Is given in outline and no more." Another thought, is the solitude of want. Just to keep repeating... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...new. JOHN MILTON. SELECTIONS FROM "IN MEMORIAM." [ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM, OB. 1833.] GRIEF UNSPEAKABLE. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. DEAD, IN A FOREIGN LAND. FAIR ship, that from the Italian shore Sailest the placid ocean-plains With... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 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. Ows writes, that ,/Other friends remain/' That, /Loss is common to the race" — And common is the... | |
 | 1876 - 168 pages
... College 3Lit»rarg »7 En MICHAEL HENRY SIMPSON " But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline, and no more." I 876 • UNIVERSITY PRESS : WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co., CAMBRIDGE. E dawn is breaking. Nature utters her... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 494 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...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. ONE writes, that " Other friends remain," That " Loss is common to the race " — And common is the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 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...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. DEAD, IN A FOREIGN LAND. FAIR ship, that from the Italian shore S.ulest the placid ocean-plains With... | |
 | Oxford city, high sch. for girls - 1879 - 448 pages
...he wraps himself in words as a protection against sorrow as he would use a cloak against the cold. ' One writes that " Other friends remain," That " Loss...common-place, And vacant chaff well meant for grain." The sarcasm in this verse against ' well-meant ' condolences scarcely needs explanation. Nearly every... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1879 - 242 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. VL NE writes, that 'Other friends remain, That' Loss is common to the race'And common is the commonplace,... | |
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