 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 414 psl.
...heart that never plighted troth, But stagnates in the weeds of sloth, Nor any want-begotten rest. 1 hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it, when I sorrow most ; 'T is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. xxvm. Tit K time draws near... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 psl.
...prison-house about With tapestries, that make its walls dilate In never-ending vistas of delight. Longfellow, I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow most ; "Pis better to have loved and lost, Thau never to have loved at all. Tennyton, ln Mrmnr. xxvn. LOVE,... | |
 | 1868 - 882 psl.
...bearded face, in him an unaccustomed weakness. He resumed. I never could agree with the poet who says— I hold it true whate'er befall,— I feel it when...sorrow most,— 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. long years of regret and bitter memories, and though Melancholy has... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 262 psl.
...not love, nor its fruit of nobility, faith revives, and the seeds of a new and holier joy are sown. " I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I...sorrow most ; ", 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." (xxvn.) This seems to me the first great halting-place in the poem.... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - 1869 - 208 psl.
...bearded face, in him an unaccustomed weakness. He resumed. I never could agree with the poet who says — I hold it true whate'er befall, — . I feel it when...sorrow most, — 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. My love brought me a few short days of happiness, and forty-three... | |
 | Christina Catherine Liddell - 1869 - 354 psl.
...cold snow, but the firm earth beneath. It is not all a dream then, after all ! IV. ' I hold it truth whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most : 'Tis better to have loved, and lost, Than never to have loved at all.' ALFRED TENNYSON. A BRIGHT fire is crackling and blazing cheerily... | |
 | 1869 - 434 psl.
...death," (2 Cor. vii. 10.) — See Canto 48. Canto 27. The following is very fine : — " I hold it trne, whate'er befall ; I feel it, when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all," Canto 31. — He says if Lazarus had told " where " he was those... | |
 | John Richard Vernon - 1869 - 384 psl.
...you say — " It would have been a beauteous dream, If it had been no more ? " Xay, rather echo — " I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it, when I sorrow most : "Pis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." For, besides His nearness who... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 88 psl.
...common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. Isongfettow. I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most; "Tig better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. Tennyson. Gather ye rosebuds while... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - 1870 - 72 psl.
...more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise. — Pope. , I hold it true whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. — Tennyson. Sleep soft, beloved, we sometimes say, But have no time... | |
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I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. 
