I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. In Memoriam - 35 psl.autoriai: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1906 - 190 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| 1850 - 640 psl.
...we now proceed to give. Our first quotation explains and vindicates the conception of the poem : I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold... | |
| John Kitto - 1863 - 524 psl.
...shall see Him as He is, but then we shall be like Him. Now we must see Him " through a glass darkly." " For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." We could not bear to see him face to face. He must veil his Godhead or we should die. To favoured men... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 psl.
...darkened eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, " Thou shall not be the fool of loss." T. 1 SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these infold... | |
| 1850 - 550 psl.
...statement that he writes not to utter his grief, but to divert the mind from the sense of pain.. " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold... | |
| 1913 - 586 psl.
...And how the breast was soothed, and how the head, And all his hourly varied anodynes, remind one of But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...exercise. Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. ' In Memoriam,' v. "!F NOT THE ROSK" (11 S. vii. 349). " Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pres d'elle,"... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 psl.
...nameless trouble cross All night below the darken'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief 1 feel ; For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 psl.
...darken' d eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, ' Thou shalt not be the fool of loss.' V. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold... | |
| 1851 - 1220 psl.
... " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put iu words the grief 1 feel ; For words, like nature, hnlf reveal And half conceal the soul within. " But, for...sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing paia " In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large... | |
| 1851 - 724 psl.
...unburden the grief-laden soul. Shelley says, and truly : Hear Tennyson in illustration : " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in. words the grief 1 feel ; Fur words, like nature, hilf reveal And half conceal the .«oui w ithiii. " But. for the unquiet... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 psl.
...nonsense ; thus leaving them in a " plague of darkness." Tennyson has said : " I sometimes think it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel." Assuredly, many of our grave-stone rhymers commit a whole sin in writing much of their epitaph-poetry.... | |
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