 This said, he wished to have jue in his sight Once, as a friend; this fixed a day in spring To come and touch my hand ... a simple thing, Yet I wept for it; this . . . the paper's light . . . Said, Dear, I love thee; and I sank and quailed As if God's...  Littell's Living Age - Page 2201857Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853 - 508 pages
...ail dead jeper, - . irate &cd white ! — And vet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremnloos hands which loose the string And let them drop down...Once, as a friend : this fixed a day in spring To comp and touch my hand ... a simple thing. Yet I wept for it ! — this, . . the paper's light . .... | |
 | 1862 - 1092 pages
...read in after years — can thus move the chords : — " My letters ! all dead paper, muto and whits I And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous...on my knee tonight. This said — he wished to have mo in his sight Once, as a friend; this fixed a day in spring To come and touch my hand ... a simple... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 334 pages
...Make witness, here, between the good and bad, That Love, as strong as Death, retrieves as well. XXVII. MY letters ! all dead paper, mute and white ! And...they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous Lands which loose the string And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said, — he wished to... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1872 - 336 pages
...here, between the good and bad, That Love, as strong as Death, retrieves as well. xxvni. Mr letters 1 all dead paper, mute and white ! And yet they seem...string And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said,^he wished to have me in his sight Once, as a friend : this fixed a day in spring To come and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...1 yield the grave for thy sake, and exchange Л у near sweet view of Heaven, tor earth with thee ! that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood...repeating, "'Tis some visitor entreating entrance mytrenuiloushandswhich loose the string And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said, ...... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...degree, I yield the grave for thy sake, and exchange Mynear sweetview of Heaven, for earth with thee ! MY letters! all dead paper, mute and white! — And...they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hnnds which loose the string And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said, he wished to have... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 644 pages
...Love, as strong as Death, retrieves as well. XXVIII. My letters ! all dead pap?r, mute and white 1 And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the strinj And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said, — he wished to have me in his sight... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...minding, dear, To love me also in silence with thy soul. MY letters ! all dead paper, . . . mute and And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous...them drop down on my knee tonight. This said, ... he wish'd to have me in his sight Once, as a friend: this fix'da day in spring To come and touch my hand... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...minds, we'd rip their hearts ; Their papers, is more lawful. 2655 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 6, My letters ! all dead paper, mute and white ! And...string And let them drop down on my knee to-night. 2656 Mrs. Browning : Sonnets fr. Portuguese. Sonnet xxviii. Kind messages, that pass from land to land... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...witness, here, between the good and bad, That Love, as strong as Death, retrieves as well. XXVIII. My letters ! all dead paper, mute and white ! And...quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the strinj And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said, — he wished to have me in his sight... | |
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