I'd touch her neck so warm and white. And I would be the gir.dle About her dainty dainty waist, And her heart would beat against me, In sorrow and in rest : And I should know if it beat right, I'd clasp it round so close and tight. Poems - Page 106by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...sat apart, And rose, and, with a silent grace Approaching, press'd you heart to heart. Ah, well—but sing the foolish song I gave you on the joyful day...along, A pensive pair, and you were gay With bridal flowers—that I may seem, As in the nights of old, to lie Beside the mill-wheel in the stream, While... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...Approaching, press'd you heart to heart. Ah, well — but sing the foolish song I gave you, Alice, on the day When, arm in arm, we went along, A pensive pair,...in the stream, While those full chestnuts whisper hy. It is the miller's daughter, And she is grown so dear, so dear, That I would be the jewel That... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...apart, And rose, and, with a silent grace Ah, well—but sing the foolish song I gave you, Alice, on the day When, arm in arm, we went along, A pensive pair, and you were gay With bridal flowers—that I may seem, As in the nights of old, to lie Beside the mill-wheel in the stream, While... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 pages
...And rose, and, with a silent grace Ah, well — but sing the foolish song I gave you, Alice, on the day When, arm in arm, we went along, A pensive pair,...grown so dear, so dear, That I would be the jewel That trembles at her ear : For, hid in ringlets day and night, I 'd touch her neck so warm and white.... | |
| M. Edgeworth Lazarus - 1852 - 358 pages
...tenderly, And you and I were all alone. Ah well ! but sing the foolish song 1 gave you, Alice, on the day When, arm in arm, we went along, A pensive pair,...flowers — that I may seem, As in the nights of old, to be Beside the mill-wheel in the stream, While those full chestnuts whisper by. It is the miller's daughter,... | |
| 1853 - 528 pages
...that's fair ; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. WALLER. SONG. It is the miller's daughter, And she is grown so dear, so dear , That I would be the jewel That trembles in her ear : For hid in ringlets day and night, I'd touch her cheeks so warm and white... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pages
...And rose, and, with a silent grace Ah, well — but sing the foolish song I gave you, Alice, on the day When, arm in arm, we went along, A pensive pair,...daughter, And she is grown so dear, so dear, That I would he the jewel That trembles at her ear : For, hid in ringlets day and night, I 'd touch her neck so... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 284 pages
...And rose, and, with a silent grace Ah, well — but sing the foolish song I gave you, Alice, on the day When, arm in arm, we went along, A pensive pair,...stream, While those full chestnuts whisper by. It is the millei-'s daughter, And she is grown so dear, so dear, That I would be the jewel That trembles at her... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 404 pages
...Approaching, press'd you heart to heart. Ah, well — but sing the foolish song I gave you, Alice, on the day When, arm in arm, we went along, A pensive pair,...grown so dear, so dear, That I would be the jewel That trembles at her ear : For hid in ringlets day and night, I'd touch her neck so warm and white.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...Approaching, press'd you heart to heart. Ah, well—but sing the foolish song I gave you, Alice, on the day "When, arm in arm, we went along, A pensive pair, and you were gay With bridal flowers—that I may seem, As in the nights of old, to lie Beside the mill-wheel in the stream, While... | |
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