 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 414 sider
...darkened eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, * Thou shall not be the fool of loss ! " v. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the...language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcoties, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the... | |
 | William Baldwin Affleck - 1866 - 234 sider
...as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly " The Poet Laureate sings : — " I sometimes hold it half a sin, To put in words the...nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." Many clouds that obscure our life-brightness might be quickly dispersed by the use of sunny words.... | |
 | Robert Duthie - 1866 - 202 sider
...broken the silence that betokens heart-felt grief : — " I sometimes hold it half a sin, To put iu words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half...within. But for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measur'd language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics numbing pain. In words, like... | |
 | william harrison - 1867 - 518 sider
...him truly, who has that within which passeth show,J and is itself past tears, and past expression. 1 sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. A use in measured language lies ; In... | |
 | Lucy Pauline Wright Hobart - 1867 - 534 sider
...THESE SELECTIONS, CULLED FOR THEM, ARE OFFERED. WITH A MOTHER'S TRUE LOVE. SETT., 1866. IN MEMORIAM. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel j For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal, the soul within. But for the unquiet heart... | |
 | Dione - 1869 - 456 sider
...to Thy home on high. T > Isaiah sxriii. ^4-26. S. Mark vi. 3. JHenwrtam CALLED, 31si MARCH, 1865. 1 sometimes hold it half a. sin To put in words the...nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. 13 ut, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 sider
...th.3 darken'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and criee, " Thou shalt not be the fool of loss." T. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like Nature, half ruveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language... | |
 | Mary T. Tardy - 1870 - 524 sider
...beloved dead to dwell on every little incident which serves to keep us near them ; even though " ( I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words, the...nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within.' " " No, Aunt Bertha, please don't stop talking ; I, too, am in the mood for sad themes, and it is just... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 sider
...the 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 I feel : For words, like Natuje, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in... | |
 | 1876 - 616 sider
...relief to sacred sorrow by giving it expression. This is one of the true functions of Poetry : " For to the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies." The section Praying for Repentance is unique, and every hymn it comprises is from the Wesley poetry. The... | |
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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. 
