 | 1863 - 640 psl.
...been hero before, Though when or how I cannot tell ; I know the path beyond the door, The sweet fresh smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, How long ago I do not know; But just when, at that swallow's soar, Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, I knew... | |
 | 1870 - 786 psl.
...finely suggested : "SUDDEN LIGHT. 44 1 have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : 1 know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. 44 You have been mine before, How long ago I may not know : But just when at that swallow's soar... | |
 | Poems - 1863 - 88 psl.
...been here before, Though when or how I cannot tell ; I know the path beyond the door, The sweet fresh smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, How long ago I do not know: But just when, at that swallow's soar, Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, I knew... | |
 | 1870 - 444 psl.
...been given to the world these many years : SUDDEN LIGHT. " I have been here before, But when or how 1 cannot tell : I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet, keen sme'.l. The sighing sound, the llghtc iround the shore. " You have been mine before, How long ago... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 psl.
...apart ; She said" Auf Wiedersehen ! " JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. SUDDEN LIGHT. §HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond...swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before ? And shall not thus time's eddying flight... | |
 | William Sharp - 1882 - 474 psl.
...either place or countenance, or experienced exactly the same environment. " I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond...swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, I knew it all of yore. " Has this been thus before ? And shall not thus Time's eddying flight... | |
 | Hesperus - 1882 - 238 psl.
...woods wail like echoes from the sea." SUDDEN LIGHT T HAVE BEEN here before, But when or how I can not tell : I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet...smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. B.:T ;Mst whcr. -t :r.it sw:ii'.,.«w's soar V....r sr:V :urn'd »o. S. rr.c \si" c.\i :"..'.'.. ... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1882 - 1190 psl.
...transfigured loveliness as characterises ' The Woodspurge,' ' Love-Lily,' ' Sudden Light,' with its Grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. His philosophy finds impulse in a neglected spray of honeysuckle, or lingers over the coming possibilities... | |
 | 1882 - 816 psl.
...transfigured loveliness as characterises ' The Woodspurge,' ' Love- Lily,' ' Sudden Light,' with its Grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. His philosophy finds impulse in a neglected spray of honeysuckle, or lingers over the coming possibilities... | |
 | 1884 - 662 psl.
...expresses the idea beautifully in one of the sonnets of the " House of Life" : " I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell ; I know the grass beyond...swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, I knew it all of yore." Walter Scott, too, spoke of it as the " sentiment of preexistence... | |
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I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, How long ago I may not know : But just when at that swallow's... 
