 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...To point the term ofhuman strife, And on the low dark verge of life The twilight of eternal day, LI. Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near...that we dread? Shall he for whose applause I strove, 1 had such reverence for his blame, See with clear eye some hidden shame And 1 be lessen'd in his love?... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...in the yearning expressed by the fiftieth section, " Be near me," and the question that follows : " Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side '( Is there no baseness wo would hide? No inner vileness that we dread ': " With its answer: " I wrong the grave with fears... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 494 pages
...point the term of human strife, And on the low dark verge of life The twilight of eternal day. LI. Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near...hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? Shall he for whoee applause I strove, I had such reverence for his blame, See with clear eye some hidden shame And... | |
 | Henry Graham (writer of aphorisms.) - 1878 - 150 pages
...Thou must love or fear the man that shakes thy hand with fervour. Our great poet sings the truth : " Do we indeed desire the dead, Should still be near...baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? " I am doubly indebted to the man that forgives me what I owe. Thou must rise early to take advantage... | |
 | John Ross Macduff - 1878 - 330 pages
...in the valley of tears; — the thought so touchingly embodied in the lines of our own poet : — " Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side? IB there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread? " Shall he for whose applause... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1878 - 688 pages
...point the term of human strife, And on the low dark verge of life The twilight of eternal day. LI. Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side? It there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? Shall he for whose applause... | |
 | William Cowper - 1879 - 88 pages
...somewhat similar train of thought 'suggested by the same fancy in Tennyson's In Memoriam, canto li. — " Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near...baseness we would hide? No inner vileness that we dread?" 88 Compare the equally famous simile in Goldsmith's Deserted Village — "As some tall cliff," &c.... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...point the term of human strife, And on the low dark verge of life The twilight of eternal day. Li. Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? ls there no haseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that wo dread ? Shall he for whoso applause... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...doubt beside the portal waits, They can but listen at the gates, And hear the household jar within. eason why, Theirs but to do and die : Into the valley of Death Rode ? Xo inner vileness that we dread ? Shall he for whose applause I strove, I hail such reverence for... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...point the term of human strife, And on the low dark verge of life The twilight of eternal day. Lt. Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near...blame, See with clear eye some hidden shame And I be lessen'd in his love? I WTong the grave with fears untrue : Shall love be blamed for want of faith... | |
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Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side? Is there no baseness we would hide? No inner vileness that we dread? 
