 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
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 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.' CCCCXIII TF thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say BROWNIHG... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 Seiten
...Behind me, and drew me backwards by the hair, And a voice said in mastery while I strove, "Guess nowwho holds thee?" "Death," I said ; but there The silver answer rang — " Not Death, but Love." LORD LYTTON. (OWEN MEREDITH.) ALREADY evening ; in the duskiest nook Of yon dusk corner, under the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 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.' IV. Thou hast thy calling to some palace floor, Most gracious singer of high poems ! where The dancers... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1881 - 428 Seiten
...takes Achilles gently, yet overpoweringly, by his yellow hair. The sonnet ends with these three lines : And a voice said in mastery, while I strove, " Guess...there The silver answer rang, " Not Death, but Love." She is far from sure, however, that Love, not Death, will bear her from that chamber. In the next sonnet... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - 1881 - 264 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: ' Guess now who holds thee?' ' Death I' I said. But there The silver answer rang: ' Not Death, but Love.' " ROBERT BROWNING (6. 1812), husband... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 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,— ' Guess now who holds thee ?'—1 Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang,—1Not Death, but Love.' CCCCXIII IF thou... | |
 | 1882 - 784 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." (Love; p. 272). ROBERT BROWSING (idem). Poor little place, where its one priest cornea On a festa-day... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - 1882 - 280 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.' ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. . Y own beloved, who hast lifted me From this drear flat of earth where... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 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, "Guess now who holds thec?"—"Death," I said. But, there, The silver answer rang. ..." Not Death, but Love." XXXVI. When... | |
 | 1883 - 528 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 ! " " The passage of Theocritus here alluded to is in Syracusan Gossips, 102. ' STUDIES IN DRYDEN.... | |
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