| 1884 - 656 pagina’s
...may be God's way of saving them after all. " I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." ealjr 0f AND now that Sarah was dead, Abraham came to mourn and to weep over her. But was not Abraham... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 842 pagina’s
...Gni:ot: Preface to the " Life of Washiaffloii" " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones. That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Tennyton't " /» Memvriam." SCRAPS. TIIE SCHOLAR'S BREECHES. Mr son was lately obliged, under stress... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pagina’s
...1849. vii IN MEMORIAM AHH oBrrr MDCCCXXXIII. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones...interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown 'd, Let darkness keep her raven gloss ; Ah ! sweeter to be drunk with loss, To dance with death,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pagina’s
...1849. vii IS MEMOEIAM AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXX1II. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones...interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown 'd, Let darkness keep her raven gloss ; Ah, sweeter to he drunk with loss, To dance with death,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pagina’s
...wise. 1849. IN MEMORIAM AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones...And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drowned, ;... | |
| Rugby sch - 1850 - 176 pagina’s
...bowing to it as a despot. Perfection is- above us, and we should strive to mount the ladder, knowing that men may " rise on< stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things." It is not therefore at all inconsistent with present energy to look back into the past, thougJi to... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pagina’s
...wise. 1849. IN MEMOEIAM AHH OEITT MDCccxxxm. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones...interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown' d, Let darkness keep her raven gloss : Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss, To dance with death,... | |
| 1851 - 1220 pagina’s
...finely : — " I held it troth, with him -who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may nse on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher...And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears t" When we speak of this poem being inferior to... | |
| 1851 - 582 pagina’s
...in this beautiful series of poems : •• I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher thing*. " The following stanza, also in the poem numbered 87., much needs interpretation : *' Or cooled... | |
| 1851 - 568 pagina’s
...beautiful series of poems : " I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, 1 hat men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." The following stanza, also in the poem nnm- 1 bered 87., much needs interpretation : " Or cooled within... | |
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