 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...point the term of human strife, And on the low dark verge of life The twilight of eternal day. II. 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 wrong the grave with fears untrue : Shall love be blamed for want of faith?... | |
 | Phillips Brooks, H. L. S., L. H. S. - Meditations - 1892 - 384 pages
...in whom I trust, has taken He is keeping. Thi more He lives to me, the more they live. i. 225, 226. Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near...baseness we would hide? No inner vileness that we dread? I wrong the grave with fears untrue : Shall love be blamed for want of faith ? There must be wisdom... | |
 | Brother Azarias - Essays (Irish) - 1892 - 292 pages
...poet. Can we bear that the dead should read our hearts with all their frailties ? He asks : — • " Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no haseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? " 2 And he answers that the dead see our... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1893 - 338 pages
...but fanciful, to raise the question, How should we feel if he were near, considering what we are ? " Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near...us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide 1 No inner vileness that we dread ? " (LI.) The answer given is that the dead would judge mercifully... | |
 | Brother Azarias - Essays (Irish) - 1893 - 292 pages
...our hearts with all their frailties ? He asks : — " Do we indeed desire the dead Should still he near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? " 2 And he answers that the dead see our frailties and our sins, but they see them " with larger... | |
 | Virginia - 1894 - 160 pages
...weaknesses and failures. I am often reminded of what Tennyson has said in his matchless elegy "In Memoriam:" "Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side? Ia there no baseness we would hide. No inner vileness that we dread? " Should he for whose applause... | |
 | Kenyon West - Poets laureate - 1895 - 588 pages
...thou and I have shaken hands, Till growing winters lay me low ; My paths are in the fields I know, LL 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 wrong the grave with fears untrue; Shall love be blamed for want of faith ?... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 230 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...blame, See with clear eye some hidden shame And I be lessen'd in his love ? I wrong the grave with fears untrue : Shall love be blamed for want of faith... | |
 | Kenyon West - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 614 pages
...growing winters lay me low ; My paths are in the fields I know. And thine in undiscover'd lands. LI. • 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 wrong the grave with fears untrue ; Shall love be blamed for want of faith... | |
 | Horace Parker Chandler - Death - 1896 - 304 pages
...quiet of the afterglow, What is to come. 140 3]n S^emoriam. ©ctobtr IN MEMORIAM. Ctocnttetlj. ******* we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us...blame, See with clear eye some hidden shame, And I be lessen'd in his love ? I wrong 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? 
