 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 135autor/autoři: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1904Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891 - 300 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 enfold VI. ONE writes, that 'Other friends remain,' That 'Loss is common to the race'— And common is the... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1891 - 244 str.
...my pains Through rhyme's vexation I should them allay, Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce. One writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That 'Loss is common to the race.' That loss is common would not make My own less bitter (vi.) : The allusion is to Hamlet, act i. scene... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1891 - 390 str.
...food. Not that Eliphaz's words are untrue: they simply do not reach Job's case, do not find him, — " And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain." Job's new experience needs some new view of truth to exOr is there savor in the white of an egg ? My... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1891 - 240 str.
...pains Through rhyme's vexation I should them allay, Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce. Ono writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That 'Loss is common to the race.' That loss is common would not make My own less bitter (vi.) : The allusion is to Hamlet, act i. scene... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 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:...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. One writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 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:...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. One writes, that 'Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is the... | |
 | Marshall Mather - 1892 - 190 str.
...letters of condolence come from far and near, all well meant, but bringing nothing of cheer or comfort. ' One writes, that "Other friends remain, That Loss is common to the race," — And common is the common place, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. ' That loss is common would not make My own less... | |
 | 1911 - 400 str.
...; For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. 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." (S) "Beneath all fancied hopes and fears Ay me, the sorrow deepens down, Whose muffled motions blindly... | |
 | 1893 - 762 str.
...parallel to the following: — (a) Woe to thee, 0 land, when thy king is a child.— (Eccl.*. 16.) (i) And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. — (/n Memoriam.) (c) "Stand on your guard, Sir!" Grenvile answered by slapping his own rapier home... | |
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