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. In Memoriam - 7. oldalszerző: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 343 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| 1865 - 962 oldal
...price 12s. [0* Tuctiiy. HELEN FELTON'S QUESTION : a Problem, in a Novel. 1 vol. post 8vo. 4 1 bold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones. That men may rise on stopping stones Of their dead selves to higher things.' The GREAT SCHOOLS of ENGLAND : a Synoptical... | |
| 1884 - 656 oldal
...children -who will follow their own wilful way. It may be God's way of saving them after all. " I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers...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... | |
| 1883 - 498 oldal
...will he realize, more vividly every day, the poet's words : — " I held it true with him who singe To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves, to higher things." THE END. obtmnfa: I. — DENHOLME. OUR New... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 842 oldal
...largest amount of unanimity, wisdom, and virtue."— Gni:ot: Preface to the " Life of Washiaffloii" " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp...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 oldal
...they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. vii IS MEMOEIAM AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXX1II. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...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,... | |
| Rugby sch - 1850 - 176 oldal
...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 oldal
...where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMOEIAM AHH OEITT MDCccxxxm. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...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 (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 oldal
...where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMORIAM AHH OBIIT MDCccxxxirr. I. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...to match ? Or reach a hand thro' time to catch The far-oif interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown'd, Let darkness keep her raven... | |
| 1851 - 582 oldal
...explain the reference in the following verse, the first in this beautiful series of poems : •• I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...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 - 1220 oldal
...familiar simplicity which spoiled some of his earlier writings. It opens 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 things. " But who shall so forecast the years,... | |
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