 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 pages
...Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ! Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...Why dimly gleams the visionary sword? O, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...\Vhy dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, I» it, in heaven, a e me up again. But I soon found it was impossible to ܕ E act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think... | |
 | Alice Meynell - English poetry - 1904 - 388 pages
...? Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? O ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it in heaven a crime to love too well, To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1910 - 330 pages
...gored? Why dimly gleams the visionary sword? O ever beauteous! ever friendly! tell, Is it in Heav'na crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...Shall be an endless theme of praise, And love — a simple duty, POE, To F -S, OD Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? POPE, Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady, lines 6-8 Fame, wealth, and honour!... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, « Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? 10 For those who greatly think, or bravely die ? Why bade ye else,... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, i Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? 10 For those who greatly think, or bravely die ? Why bade ye else,... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...gored, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? O, ever beauteous, ever friendly! tell Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think,... | |
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Tis she ; — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ! Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ?... 
