 I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, — How long ago I may not know : But just when at that swallow's...  The Grove: A Monthly Miscellany - Page 831891Full view - About this book
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1886 - 521 pages
...fear takes flight, Shall leap against my side. SUDDEN LIGHT. I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond the door,...so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before ? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1886
...tell; 1 I know tbe grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around shore. .You have been mine before— How long ago...know; But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turn'd so. Some veil did fall-I knew It all of jore. Has this been thus before? And shall not thus... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1887
...fear takes flight, Shall leap against my side. SUDDEN LIGHT. I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The...so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before ? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our loves... | |
 | Edward Dwight Walker - Reincarnation - 1888 - 350 pages
...POETRY OF REINCARNATION. 153 SUDDEN LIGHT. BY DG ROSSETTI. I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell ; I know the grass beyond the door,...so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. Then, now, perchance again ! O round mine eyes your tresses shake ! Shall we not lie as we have lain... | |
 | Edward Dwight Walker - Reincarnation - 1888 - 350 pages
...POETRY OF REINCARNATION. 153 SUDDEN LIGHT. BY DG ROSSETTI. I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell ; I know the grass beyond the door,...not know : But just when at that swallow's soar Your rreck turned so. Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. Then, now, perchance again ! O round... | |
 | Elizabeth Williams Champney - 1890 - 358 pages
...soldering furnace ! CHAPTER XV. THE ESTATES DEL PARADISO. "I have been here before, But when, or how, I cannot tell; I know the grass beyond the door, The...so, Some veil did fall — I knew it all of yore." — Rossetti. E must now return to Mr. Armstrong^ whom we left in chapter XII. in conference with Dr.... | |
 | Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus - European fiction - 1891
...smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, — How long ago 1 may not know ; But just when at that swallow's soar...so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. Then, now, perchance again I Oh, round mine eyes your tresses shake I Shall we not lie as we have lain... | |
 | George Hawkins Pember - Buddhism - 1892 - 80 pages
...keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. " You have been mine before — How long I may not know : But just when at that swallow's soar...so, Some veil did fall — I knew it all of yore. " Then, now — perchance again ! O round mine eyes your tresses shake ! Shall we not lie as we have... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - English poetry - 1893 - 380 pages
...fear takes flight, Shall leap against my side. SUDDEN LIGHT. I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond the door,...so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before ? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love... | |
 | Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - Psychology - 1895
...keen, sweet smell. The sighing sound, the lights around the shore." So Rossetti in " Sudden Light," and "You have been mine before — How long ago I may...soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall — I know it all of yore." One recalls at once Wordsworth's "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting,"... | |
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