 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
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 412 pages
...cold. But that lares grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no me>re. VL ONE writes, th.U "Other friends remain," That "Loss is common to the race," — And common is the commonplace, Aud vacant chad' well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 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. LO, AS A DOVE WHEN UP SHE SPRINGS. \ln Metnoriatit, XII.] Lo, as a dove when up she springs To bear... | |
 | John W Dilley - 1885 - 72 pages
...said is swallowed up in thought. But if we must speak, shall we say — In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these infold Is given in outline, and no more ? "All human work," says CARLVLE, "is transitory, small in... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...langnage lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcoties, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold, But that large grief which these en fold Is given in outline and no more. LO, AS A DOVE WHEN TTf SHЕ SPRINGS. [In Mcmorianr, XII.]... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1886 - 342 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotice 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. The "large grief" was too sacred to be mach spoken of, or expressed pointedly in the printed poems,... | |
 | Henry Fitz Randolph - Ballads, English - 1887 - 344 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. XXI. I SING to him that rests below, And, since the grasses round me wave, I take the grasses of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1887 - 508 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pnin. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large nrief which these enfold IB £iveu in outline and no more. TI. OXE writes, tliat " Other friends remain,"... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Academic achievement - 1889 - 894 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:...and no more. VI. One writes, that ' Other friends remain,1 That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1890 - 640 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. DEAD, IN A FOREIGN LAND. Fair ship, that from the Italian shore Sailest the placid ocean-plains With... | |
 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 pages
...language lies; The sad mechanic exercise. Like dull narcotics, Dumbing 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. DEAD, IN A FOREIGN LAND. Fair ship, that from the Italian shore Sailest the placid ocean-plains With... | |
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