Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Poems - Page 95by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
| Marian James - 1855 - 342 pages
...melodiously through the room, on the melodious syllables : " 'Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken,...all the chords with might, Smote the chord of self, which, trembling, passed in music out of sight.'" "O poet! where didst learn that fallacy?" rang out... | |
| Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1855 - 344 pages
...remainder of the evening sitting cross legged, and balancing his foot up and down. CHAPTER VIII. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the...with might, Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music Out of sight. TKNNYSON. THE party separated early. The evening had been spent unsociably... | |
| Marian James - 1855 - 340 pages
...on the melodious syllables : " 'Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing Lands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden..."'Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chorda with might, Smote the chord of self, which, trembling, passed in music out of sight'" " O poet... | |
| Marian James - 1856 - 116 pages
...voice had the baronet, and it thrilled melodiously through the room, on the melodious syllables : " Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his...all the chords with might, Smote the chord of self, which, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight." ' Oh, poet, where did'st learn that fallacy ? " rang... | |
| 1856 - 526 pages
...kindled at the cross ; no love so spirit-actuating, none so selfsacrificing as love to Christ : ' Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all' the...Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.' " This is admirably written, and it is as true as it is beautiful. The English Bible and its History.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...should do me wrong ; " Saying, " Dost thou love me, cousin ? " weeping, " I have loved thee long." Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his...Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that,... | |
| Mary Catherine Jackson - 1856 - 340 pages
...myself amongst the flowers and fell to musing. CHAPTER III. " Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands." TENNYSON. THE soft light of a lamp fell upon a mass of flowers and shrubs, shedding over them a dream-like... | |
| Patrick Joseph Murray - 1857 - 368 pages
...which the absence of her charge might escape detection. For both it was a happy dream; for them " Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his...Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight." Mornings of love, days of love-musing, nights of dreaming love, rarely continue unnoticed by those... | |
| Marion Harland - 1857 - 460 pages
... MOSS-SIDE. BY MARION HARLAND, A.UTHOE OP t4ALONE," AND UTHE HIDDEN PATH u Lovd took up the harp of Life, and smote On all the chords...might, Smote the chord of Self, that trembling passed In music out of sight." NEW YORK: DBEBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU STREET. ENTEKKD according to Act... | |
| 1857 - 528 pages
...human heart. The musical verse from Locksley Hall, which, by the way, we never did exactly cornprehend, Love took up the harp of life and smote on all the chords with might, Smote the chord of self which trembling passed in mutic out of tight, is accordingly illustrated in the character of the heroine,... | |
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