 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 psl.
...be right to omit Robert Browning's beautiful tribute to the memory of the poet : Memorabilia. ' Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and...seems, and new! But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at — My starting moves your laughter 1 I crossed a... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 psl.
...time he has tested his first plough, And studied his last chapter of St. John. MEMORABILIA. 1. An, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and...speak to him again ? How strange it seems, and new ! 2. But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at — My... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 psl.
...nature. The week passed, as weeks will, the lights were turned out, the voices silenced. But : Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you ? And did yon speak to him again ? How strange it seems, and new 1 But you were living before that, And you are... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1866 - 120 psl.
...ground Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark, I shape me, — Ever Removed ! MEMORABILIA. AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you ? And did you speak to him again 1 How strange it seems, and new ! But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 psl.
...fills up the blank. Writing of Shelley, the English poet of whom he speaks with most reverence — "Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you?" — he is led to treat of poetry in general, and of the relation in which a great poet stands to his... | |
 | 1869 - 384 psl.
...he is lost in a trance of wonder and awe, in which the man appears glorified before him : — " Ah ! did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and...seems and new ! But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at — My starting moves your laughter ! " And it is... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1869 - 378 psl.
...he is lost in a trance of wonder and awe, in which the man appears glorified before him : — " Ah ! did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and...seems and new ! But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at — My starting moves your laughter ! " And it is... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1869 - 900 psl.
...did yon speak to him again? How strange it oeeiuu, and new 1 "But yon were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at — My starting moves your laughter ! " I crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a nse in the world no donbt ; Yet a hand'B-breadth of it... | |
 | 1871 - 314 psl.
...ground Than a new one, straight to the selfeame mark, I shape me, — Ever Removed ! MEMORABILIA. AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and...seems, and new ! But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the memory I started at, — My starting moves your laughter ! I crossed... | |
 | Clara Bellew - 1871 - 328 psl.
...ever." " Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, " etc. Euawlwrrj II..:. "Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you ?" " A murderer, and a villain ; A slave, that is not the twentieth part of the tithe Of your precedent... | |
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I crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a certain use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about... 
