 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 all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music...  Little Classics: Poems, lyrical - Sida 9redigerad av - 1875Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 sidor
...HALLECK. On the Death of Drake. ALFRED TENNYSON. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all its chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling passed in music out of sight. Locksleg Hall. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 398 sidor
...it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, hghtly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might...evening by the waters did we watch the stately ships, And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips. O my cousin, shallow-hearted ! O my Amy1,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 sidor
...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;...evening by the waters did we watch the stately ships, And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips. O my cousin, shallow-hearted ! O my Amy,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 400 sidor
...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...morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, Many an evening by the waters did we watch the stately ships, And our spirits rushed together at the... | |
 | 1866 - 744 sidor
...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...self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight." But, while he describes this season of bliss, relentless memory confronts him with the mocking issue... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 sidor
...of Life, and smote on all the chords with might ; SUN "5 the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight. Many a morning on the moorland did we hear the copses ring, And her whisper throng"d my pulses with the_ fulness of the Spring. Many an evening by the waters did we watch the... | |
 | 1866 - 978 sidor
...beneath her sweet simplicity and graee : — "Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all it-s chords with might : Smote the chord of Self, that trembling passed in music out of eight!" And so Lancelot chafed under a sense of his own nothingness and unworthiuess. How clumsy he... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 802 sidor
...loving, not of being loved," he will add, " that the poet speaks when he says — Love took np the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might,...Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight." Our topicist is never averse to the introduction of an occasional lino or two of poetry into his disquisitions... | |
 | 1868 - 400 sidor
...; no love so spirit-actuating, none so self-sacrificing, as love to Christ : — " Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might...Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight." And yet, the imagination of Paul was, on this theme, loftier than the Laureate's. Such, according to... | |
 | Marion Harland - 1868 - 460 sidor
...MOSS-SIDE. BY MAKION HAKLAND, ATTTHOK OF "AlONB," "NEMESIS." "TH« HIDDBH PATH," "Love took up the harp of Life, and smote On all the chords with might,— Smote the chord of Self, that trembling poM*% In music out of eight." !«&: SHELDON AND COMPANY. iMTntn Mcording to Act of CongreH, in the... | |
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