 What is it all, if we all of us end but in being our own corpse-coffins at last? Swallow'd in Vastness, lost in Silence, drown'd in the deeps of a meaningless Past? What but a murmur of gnats in the gloom, or a moment's anger of bees in their hive? —...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 536edited by - 1889Full view - About this book
 | Dover coll - 1883 - 326 pages
...murmur of gnats in the ¡iloorn, or a moment's augrr of bees in the hive ': Peace, let it be ! for T loved him, and love him for ever ; the dead are not dead but alive." Here let ut take our leave of this strongsouled, human-hearted man ; leave him true to his friend,... | |
 | 1889 - 1040 pages
...corpse-coffins at last, Swallow'd in vastness, lost in silence, drown'd in the deeps of a meaningless Fast ? What but a murmur of gnats in the gloom, or a moment's...are not dead but alive. How else than thus can we nowimagine the cosmic position of man ? We have long ceased to think of him as standing on an immutable... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1889 - 192 pages
...in being our own corpse-coffins at last, Swallow'd in Vastness, lost in Silence, drown'd in XVIII. What but a murmur of gnats in the gloom, or a moment's...love him for ever : the dead are not dead but alive. DeDicareU to ti;e I; on. 31. iRuaeell ILotoell. THE RING. MIRIAM AND HER FATHER. MIRIAM (singing).... | |
 | 1889 - 1104 pages
...a murmur of gnats in the gloom, or a moment's anger of bees in their hive? Peace, let it be ! for T loved him, and love him for ever ; the dead are not dead but alive. How else than thus can we nowimagine the cosmic position of man ? We have long ceased to think of him as standing on an immutable... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 pages
...voices of prayer ? All that is noblest, all that is basest, all that is filthy with all that is fair ? What is it all, if we all of us end but in being our...? Peace, let it be! for I loved him, and love him forever: the dead are not dead but alive." And then the great poet closes the last book, possibly,... | |
 | 1890 - 644 pages
...it all, if we all of us end but in being our own corpse-coffins at last, Swallowed in \rastness,lost in Silence, drown'd in the deeps of a meaningless...— Peace, let it be ! for I loved him, and love him forever ; the dead are not dead, but alive." The dramatic fragment, "The Ring," is in n minor chord... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...at last, Swallow'd in Vastness, lost in Silence, drown'd in the deeps of a meaningless Past? XVIII. What but a murmur of gnats in the gloom, or a moment's...love him for ever : the dead are not dead but alive. Scuicatcfi to thr It'on. 3. ttussrll ILototll. THE RING. MIRIAM AND HER FATHER. Miriam (singing). MELLOW... | |
 | Brother Azarias - 1892 - 292 pages
...ns end but in being our own corpsecoffins at but. Swallowed in Vast ness. lost in Silence, drowned in the deeps of a meaningless Past ? " What but a...— Peace, let it be! for I loved him, and love him forever : the dead are not dead but alive." i Was ever the sense of oppressiveness arising from contemplation... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1893 - 338 pages
...us end but in being our own corpsecoffins at last, Swallowed in Vastness, lost in Silence, drowned in the deeps of a meaningless Past ? What but a murmur...love him for ever : the dead are not dead but alive." In Parnassus, stunted by the " terrible muses " of astronomy and geology, we have — " If the lips... | |
 | 1891 - 424 pages
...drown'd in the dccps of a meaningless Fast? What but a murmur of gnats in the gloom, or a moinent's anger of bees in their hive? * Peace, let it be !...love him for ever : the dead are not dead but alive ! 'Tlte Sing' ist ein etwas düsterer dialog, dem der einem brautringe anhaftende fluch den dunklen... | |
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