Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music... Poems - Page 99by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Howitt - 1847 - 566 pages
...we see this effect in life, but where ever has it been, and in so few words, so fully expressed 1 " Many a. morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, And her whisper thronged my pulses with the feelings of the spring. Many an evening by the waters did we watch the... | |
| Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1850 - 152 pages
...of Paul Lynedon. CHAPTER HI. Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it In his glowing hands, * Every moment lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on nil the chords with might, Smete the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 pages
...cousin ? " weeping, " I have loved thee long." Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the...might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring. And her whisper... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 pages
...cousin ?" weeping, " I have loved thee long." Love took up thte glass of Time, and turned it in his 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. Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, And her whisper... | |
| Daniel Wise - 1851 - 294 pages
...others, which throws a spell of enchant« ment over them.- In her the song of the poet is realized : " 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." The celebrated WILLIAM WIRT, in a letter to his daughter, discourses... | |
| Anna Atkins - 1852 - 912 pages
...passed on, saw no diminution. "Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands, Ev'ry moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands;...Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight." With the impression that one formed to ornament and enjoy society should not be withdrawn from it,... | |
| Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...MAY, 1852. tftjr Ipirit uf Idf. Love took np the glass of time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands, Every moment lightly shaken, ran itself in golden...Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling pass'd in magic out of sight. TENNISOS. OUR story opens in an upper chamber of a spacious gothic mansion, at... | |
| M. Edgeworth Lazarus - 1852 - 358 pages
...weeping, "I have loved thee [long." Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden...with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, And her whisper... | |
| Grace Greenwood - 1853 - 430 pages
...with a decoction of bitter herbs from the waste garden of her heart. With her it was sorrow that ' 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.' Into the joys and hopes of others she threw her spirit ; for others... | |
| Caroline Grautoff - 1854 - 332 pages
...at what I am glad of. Tempest. Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands ; Every moment lightly shaken, ran itself in golden...self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight. TENNYSON. Janet walked straight up stairs into her bed-room; by the time she reached it, she could... | |
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