 I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies, The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics,...  Works: The princess. In memoriam - Strana 137autor/autoři: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1904Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | 1850
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...which these enfold Is given in outline, and no more. Soon after the poet alludes to the well-meant common-places by which it is so often sought to console... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 210 str.
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. v. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is... | |
 | 1850
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...which these enfold Is given in outline, and no more." — P. 5. In another place, he says that his spirit can find relief in words only when the tides of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 210 str.
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. V. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 216 str.
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these infold Is given in outline and no more. VI. ONE writes, that " Other friends remain," That " Loss is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 210 str.
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numhing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these eufold Is given in outline and no more. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,1 That ' Loss is common... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold;...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. TI. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race '—• And common... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1851
...language lie» : The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotio, numbing pain. " In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these infold Is given in outline and no more." That is a sort of apology for writing his thought«, and bathing... | |
 | Meta Lander - 1861 - 325 str.
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these infold IB given in outline and no more." THIS simple Tribute to tho Memory of a beloved child, was... | |
 | 1888
...comforter represents to the survivor that it is the common and inevitable lot for the old to pass away. One writes, that 'Other friends remain,' That 'Loss...common-place, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. Eeal unselfish sympathy will usually engender tact, even in the blunt and unrefined when they stand... | |
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