 ... round word, Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak, To whom can this be true who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all men speak, When want or woe or fear is in the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed...  Littell's Living Age - Page 2751862Full view - About this book
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pages
...that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange wild note Suni; by some fay or fiend ? There is a strength which dies if wretched too far or npnn too fine : Which has more weight than breadth, more depth than length. Let... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pages
...fear, is in the throat, 80 that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the tore heart, or a strange wild note Sung by some fay or fiend ? There IB a strength Which dies if stretched too far or spun too fine : Let but this force be mine, of thought... | |
 | John George Repplier McElroy - 1885 - 362 pages
...fear, is in the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange wild note Sung by some fay or fiend !...of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase, Which glows but burns not, though it beam and shine— Light, but no heat—a... | |
 | John George Repplier McElroy - 1885 - 352 pages
...fear, is in the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or~a strange wild note Sung by some fay or fiend ! There...of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase, Which glows but burns not, though it beam and shine—- Light, but no heat... | |
 | John George Repplier McElroy - 1885 - 374 pages
...fear, is in the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange wild note Sung by some fay or fiend !...more depth than length, Let but this force of thought ana speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase, Which glows but burns not, though... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1886 - 428 pages
...or woe, is in the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange, wild note Sung by some fay or fiend...than breadth, more depth than length ; Let but this foree of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek fat phrase, Which glows but... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 414 pages
...or woe, is in the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange, wild note Sung by some fay or fiend...of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek fat phrase, Which glows but burns not, though it beam and shine ; Light, but no heat,—a... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 414 pages
...or woe, is in the throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange, wild note Sung by some fay or fiend...of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek fat phrase, Which glows but burns not, though it beam and shine ; Light, but no heat,... | |
 | Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood - 1888 - 446 pages
...out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange, wild note Sung by some fay or fiend I There is a strength Which dies if stretched too far,...of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase, Which glows but burns not, though it beam and shine ; Light, but no heat,... | |
 | 1889 - 1122 pages
...fear is in the throat, So that each word is gasped out like a shriek Pressed from the heart, or ns a strange, wild note, Sung by some fay or fiend !...than length. Let but this force of thought and speech bo mine, And he that will may take the sleok, fat phrase Which glows and burns not, though it gleam... | |
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