 A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee : Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.  Notes and Queries - Page 1261895Full view - About this book
 | Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton Marquis of Northampton - English literature - 1837 - 448 pages
...thing on earth. A shadow flits before me — Not thou, but like to thee. Ah God ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. It leads me forth at Evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1838 - 862 pages
...anything on earth. A shadow flits before me — Not thou, but like to thee, Ah God ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white... | |
 | 1877 - 506 pages
...and the chill of death pierces us to the bone, and we are saying, " Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." We are helplessly driven on to the shores of eternity, like sea- weed loosened... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...thing on earth. A shadow flits before mo, Not thou, but like to theu ; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. It leads me forth at evening It lightly winds and steals In a cold white... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...on earth. A shmlow flits hefore me, Not thnn, hut like to thee ; Ah Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour, to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 436 pages
...on earth. 8. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee ; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1855 - 520 pages
...on earth. " A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee ; Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. " It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 176 pages
...2. MAUD. 3. A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee ; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. 4. It leads me forth at evening, It lightly winds and steals In a cold white... | |
 | Mary Henderson Eastman - 1856 - 406 pages
...light that turns to darkness. I wish I could know of the future. " Ah ! Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be." " You cannot now, Irene," I said, " beyond what God has revealed to us... | |
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