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 - 1876 - 452 Seiten
...And the lily whispers, ,,I wait." XI. She is coming, my ourn, 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. PART II. I. i. ,/THK fault was mine, the fault wasmine" — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still,... | |
| Toru Dutt - 1876 - 262 Seiten
...the famous garden song iu Maud, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthen hed ; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. he observes, " in these lines a quick ear detects Poe's musio ringing like a silver bell." With much... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 104 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. THE BUGLE SONG. f]HE splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story ; The long light... | |
| 1877 - 936 Seiten
...explanation given to me by a certain well-known physician of that much-debated line in " Maud " : — My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a...dead, Would start and tremble under her feet, And l,hissvm in purple and red. He tells me that, supposing the possibility of a dead heart's coming to... | |
| Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 358 Seiten
...hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait." 4She 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. Tennyson. A FAREWELL. Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie; That I may... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 Seiten
...And the lily whispers, ' I wait.' XI. 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. PART II. L i. 'THE fault was mine, the fault was mine ' — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still,... | |
| John Wesley Hales - 1878 - 772 Seiten
...ira Tennyson's Mattd, I. (xxii. u): " 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." 95. [What part of speech is chance virtually here ?] Contemplation, See II Pens. 54. 98. at the peep... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1878 - 194 Seiten
...And the lily whispers, " I wait." XI. 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. PART II. I. HE fault was mine, the fault was mine" — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still,... | |
| Toru Dutt - 1878 - 336 Seiten
...sweet : Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthen bed ; My dust would, hear her and beat, Had I lain...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. he observes, " in these lines a quick ear detects Poe's music ringing like a silver bell." With much... | |
| James Jackson Wray - 1878 - 354 Seiten
...sweet ! Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthly bed : My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red." Tennyson. )UCY BLYTH was conducted with softened footfall and bated breath into the darkened chamber... | |
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