She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;' The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers, 'I wait. The Modern Student's Book of English Literature - Page 618by Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 898 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 582 pages
...weeps, " She is late ; " The larkspur listens, " I hear, I hear," And the lily whispers, " I wait." XI. She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. TENNYSON. TO ALTHEA. WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings... | |
| 1882 - 552 pages
...She is near, she is near ; ' And the white rose weeps : ' She is late ; ' The larkspur listens — ' I hear, I hear ; ' And the lily whispers : ' I wait.'...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red." Scarcely had the lovers met ere the brother of Maud broke in upon them, and heaped terms of disgrace... | |
| Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 pages
...cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, " She is late ; " The larkspur listens, " I hear, I hear; " And the lily whispers, " I wait."...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. Alfred Tennyson. » I 2O* TELLING THE BEES. Here is the place ; right over the hill Runs the path I... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1881 - 502 pages
...white rose weeps, " She is late ' The larkspur listens, " I hear, I hear " ; And the lily whispers, " 1 wait." She is coming, my own, my sweet ; Were it ever...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. XXIII. " THE fault was mine, the fault was mine " — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still, Plucking... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...cries, " She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, " She is late;" The larkspur listens, " I hear, I hear;" And the lily whispers, " I wait."...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. 1 he Defence of Lucknow. Banner of England, not for a season, O banner of Britain, hast thou Floated... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt. e. TENNYSON— In Memoriam. Ft. LXIV. She is coming my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy...tremble under her feet. And blossom in purple and red. /. TENNYSON— Maud. Pt. ХХП. St. ii. The nightingale, with long and low preamble, Warbled from... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 348 pages
...weeps, "She is late" ; The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear"; And the lily whispers, " I wait." 3d. She is coming, my own, my sweet ; Were it ever so...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. PART II. I. fault was mine, the fault was mine " — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still, Plucking... | |
| Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 pages
...makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent. (AW Hare. She is coming my own, my sweet ; Were it ever so airy...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. ( Tennyton. Life outweighs all things if Love lies within it. (Goethe. Love is the emblem of eternity... | |
| Short stories, American - 1884 - 192 pages
...cold as the bitter air. Some impish sprite seemed to mock him with the closing strain of the song: " She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red." All the charm had gone out of the words. Were such passionate yearnings actual, or at best more than... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 302 pages
...cries, ' She is near, she is near ; ' And the white rose weeps, ' She is late ; ' The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers, ' I wait....tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. XLIV I HAVE led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none. And never yet so warmly... | |
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