 She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple...  Elegiac Selections - Seite 25von Ovid - 1905Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 Seiten
...the lily whispers, ' I wait.' . IL She is coming, my own, my sweet ; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. XXII. !• ' THE fault was mine, the fault was mine ' — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still,... | |
 | 1863 - 858 Seiten
...sweet; Were it ever so airy a trend, My heart would hear her and bent, Were it earth in an earthly bed ; My dust would hear her and beat Had I lain for...tremble under her feet And blossom in purple and red." We do not remember a garden scene in poetry that surpasses this for delicacy and beauty, and for the... | |
 | Marion Harland - 1863 - 528 Seiten
...hear her and beat ; Were it earth in an earthy bed, , " My dust would hear her and beat; Had I laid for a century dead, Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red." He did not discriminate now between printed and written verses. These were love stanzas sent by another... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 Seiten
...She is coining, my own, my sweet ! Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE3 AT BALAKLAVA. TLTALF a league, half a league, •*• Half a league... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - 1866 - 380 Seiten
...daisies. The lover deemed it a token of extraordinary devotion, that, when his mistress came by, his " dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red." But no foot so humble, so little loved, so seldom listened for, that the earth will not feel its tread... | |
 | Samuel M. Kennedy - 1867 - 530 Seiten
...coming, my own, my sweet ; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her, and beat, Had it lain for a century dead ; Would start and tremble under her feet And blossom in purple and red " What a love, which an unearthly remorse was to consume with the fires of hell, ended not even in... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 Seiten
...the lily whispers, ' I wait.' • II. She is coming, my own, my sweet ; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. I XXIII. ' THE fault was mine, the fault was mine ' — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 186 Seiten
...And the lily whispers, ' I wait.' 11. She is coming, my own, my sweet ; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. MAUD. PAET II. I. t ' THE fault was mine, the fault was mine ' — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd... | |
 | 1871 - 314 Seiten
...; And the lily whispers, " I wait." She is coming, my own, my sweet ; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. A VOICE BY THE CEDAR-TREE. A VOICE hy the cedar-tree, In the meadow under the Hall ! She is singing... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 Seiten
...;" And the lily whispers, " I wait." She is coming, my own, my sweet ! Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. ALFRED TENNYSON. The Welcome. i. COME in the evening, or come in the morning — Come when you're looked... | |
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