 So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery while I strove, 'Guess now who holds thee ?' — 'Death !  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 470edited by - 1874Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Waddington - 1888 - 272 pages
...wished -for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young-: And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in...Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across'me. Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic shape did move Behind me, and drew me... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1892 - 334 pages
...called by her in modest concealment of their really autobiographical character. The representation, A mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair, seems, unless you understand the classic allusion implied, a mar to the otherwise perfect finish of... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 802 pages
...Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young : And, as I mus'd it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision...turns had flung A shadow across me. Straightway I was So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair ; And a voice said... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 810 pages
...appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or youug : And, as I mus'd it in his antique tongue, I »w, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad...turns had flung A shadow across me. Straightway I was for yean, "ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...old and younj: And as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw a gradual vision through my tors, Tht sweet sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my...turns had flung A shadow across me. Straightway I wn "ware, So weeping, how a mystic shape did man Behind me, and drew me backwards by the hair, And... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...appears To bear a gift for mortals, old and young ; And as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw a gradual vision through my tears, The sweet sad years,...how a mystic shape did move Behind me, and drew me backwards by the hair, And a voice said in mastery, while I strove, " Guess now who holds thee?" "Death,"... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 544 pages
...wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young : And, as I mused it in his antique tongue I saw in gradual vision through my tears The SWeeVSatTyears>ti^ njelancholy years Those of my own life, who by «KPS nac* ^unS A shadow across me.... | |
 | 1898 - 158 pages
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