And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me. Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did... The North British Review - Seite 2391857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1872 - 540 Seiten
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery while I strove,...The silver answer rang . . ' Not Death, but Love.' BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said : Himself, beside Thee speaking... | |
| Book - 1872 - 326 Seiten
...Straightway I was ware, So weeping, how a mystic shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair, And a voice said in mastery, while I strove...?" " Death," I said. But there, The silver answer rung, "Not Death, but Love." MRS, BROWNING. And this is how the poet Campbell anticipated later life:... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 396 Seiten
...backwards by the hair, And a voice said in mastery, while I strove — J "H O H O B h 0 KI u H H X H "Guess now who holds thee?" — "Death," I said; but...The silver answer rang — " Not Death, but Love." [ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. See p. 235.] a H H 5 £ E « Bt tf] H X H H f in o H td K XIX. — WORLDLY... | |
| Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 262 Seiten
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair, And a voice said in mastery, while I strove:...there The silver answer rang: ' Not Death, but Love.' " EOBERT BROWNING (b. 1812), husband of the poetess, is considered to be, next to Tennyson, the best... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1873 - 334 Seiten
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,...The silver answer rang, — ' Not Death, but Love.' n. BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said, — Himself, beside Thee... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 802 Seiten
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how n mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery, while I strove...there, The silver answer rang, "Not Death, but Love!" Then comes a description of love, whose power nothing can conqntr. and which man is helpless to destroy.... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1874 - 486 Seiten
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair; And a voice said in mastery while I strove,...there, The silver answer rang . . ' Not Death, but Love.'1 II. BUT only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said ; Himself, beside... | |
| George Barnett Smith - 1875 - 448 Seiten
...Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery, while I strove...there, The silver answer rang, " Not Death, but Love ! "' Then comes a description of love, whose powei nothing can conquer, and which man is helpless to... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 Seiten
...Straightway I was ViTre So weeping, how a mystic shape did move Behmd me, and drew me backwards by the hair And a voice said in mastery, while I strove "Guess now who holds the>' "Death," I said; but there The silver answer rang,- " Not Death, but Love." THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN.*... | |
| 1875 - 660 Seiten
...weeping, how a mystic shape did move Behind me, and drew me backwards by the hair, And a voice snid in mastery, while I strove, 'Guess now who holds thee ?' ' Death,' I said f but there The silver answer rang — ' Not Death, but Love.' . Elizabeth Barren Browning. L LATE... | |
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