 I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics,...  Development Lessons - Page 262by Esmond Vedder De Graff, Margaret Keiver Smith - 1883 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 pages
...darkened eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, " Thou shall not be the fool of loss ! " V. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the...nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise,... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1863 - 526 pages
...shall see Him as He is, but then we shall be like Him. Now we must see Him " through a glass darkly." " For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." We could not bear to see him face to face. He must veil his Godhead or we should die. To favoured men... | |
 | Education - 1864 - 568 pages
...indicative of bring, in the active voice. 6. Parse the italicized words in the sentence " I some times hold it half a sin to put in words the grief I fed. 1. Write an adjective derived from each of the words glory, haste, autumn, honor, hate. 8. What... | |
 | William Baldwin Affleck - Temperance - 1866 - 234 pages
...as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly " The Poet Laureate sings : — " I sometimes hold it half a sin, To put in words the...nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." Many clouds that obscure our life-brightness might be quickly dispersed by the use of sunny words.... | |
 | Robert Duthie - English poetry - 1866 - 202 pages
...broken the silence that betokens heart-felt grief : — " I sometimes hold it half a sin, To put iu words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half reveal, And half conceal the soul within. But for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measur'd language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like... | |
 | 1867 - 514 pages
...buried in the breast are the most Utter. "§ The laureate says, in his matchless Memorial poem : 1 sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise,... | |
 | william harrison - 1867 - 518 pages
...him truly, who has that within which passeth show,J and is itself past tears, and past expression. 1 sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.... | |
 | Lucy Pauline Wright Hobart - Consolation - 1867 - 534 pages
...THESE SELECTIONS, CULLED FOR THEM, ARE OFFERED. WITH A MOTHER'S TRUE LOVE. SETT., 1866. IN MEMORIAM. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel j For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal, the soul within. But for the unquiet heart... | |
 | Dione - 1869 - 456 pages
...to Thy home on high. T > Isaiah sxriii. ^4-26. S. Mark vi. 3. JHenwrtam CALLED, 31si MARCH, 1865. 1 sometimes hold it half a. sin To put in words the...nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. 13 ut, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pages
...th.3 darken'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and criee, " Thou shalt not be the fool of loss." T. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like Nature, half ruveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language... | |
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