 No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime. Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress ? Behind...  Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris - Page viiby Marni Reva Kessler - 2006 - 215 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Royal Society of Tasmania - 1889 - 550 pages
...mellow music, match'd with him. O life, as futile then as frail — 0 for thy voice to soothe and bless What hope of answer or redress, Behind the veil, behind the veil !" Thus the poet's refuge is in the after life. But have we no hope of amelioration in the present.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Academic achievement - 1889 - 894 pages
...mellow music match'd with him. 0 life as futile, then, as frail ! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress ? Behind the veil, behind the veil. LVII. Peace ; come away : the song of woe Is after all an earthly song : Peace ; come away : we do... | |
 | John P. Murphy - English language - 1890 - 280 pages
...TENNYSON. Before ; " Who shall go before them ?" — " Before Abraham was, I am."— ST. JOHN. Behind ; " What hope of answer or redress? — Behind the veil, behind the veil." — TENNYSON. Below ; "One degree below kings." — ADDISON. — " Below the moon ; below the knee."... | |
 | William Richard Hughes - Poets, English - 1890 - 138 pages
...intellectual powers. II. " O life as futile, then, as frail ! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress ? Behind the veil, behind the veil." In Memoriam, TENNYSON. After leaving Birmingham, on the death of her grandmother, from whom she inherited... | |
 | Chautauquas - 1891 - 828 pages
...darkness up to God. — Ibid. LV. O life as futile, then, as frail ! 0 for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress ? Behind the veil, behind the veil. — Ibid. LVI. And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. — Ibid.... | |
 | Richard D. Jones - Assassination in literature - 1891 - 152 pages
...problem of Evil. The voice of Nature as to death and immortality. '-Are God and Nature then at strife?" " What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil." But sorrow is finally accepted as a chastener. "O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me." 4. Poems Ixxviii-ciii.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 pages
...mellow music match'd with him. 0 life as futile, then, as frail ! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil. LVII. Peace ; come away : the song of woe Is after all an earthly song : Peace; come away: we do him... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail ! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil. Peace; come away: the song of woe Is after all an earthly song : Peace ; come away : we do him wrong... | |
 | Humanities - 1911 - 400 pages
...his creed." As afterwards in Maud : "For Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal."* "What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil." (56) But the Soul still answers: " I have felt." " I can hardly understand," says Tennyson in prose,... | |
 | Samuel Weil - Philosophy and religion - 1893 - 300 pages
...such evil dreams ? ***** ***** O life as futile then, as frail ! O for the voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer or redress Behind the veil, behind the veil ? " Has not the time come in the history of our planet for the solution of the riddle of the sphinx... | |
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