 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 - 1875 - 170 pages
...the darken'd 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,... | |
 | Rev. John Reid - Grief - 1875 - 406 pages
...simple look or a silence, may be the highest eloquence to a spirit that knows the nature of grief. "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,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...darken'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, andcries, " Thou shalt not be the fool of loss." v. 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,... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - American literature - 1876 - 168 pages
...Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. Lady Clara Vere de Vert. 1n. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. In Memoriam, 5. IV. , Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...new. JOHN MILTON. SELECTIONS FROM "IN MEMORIAM." [ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM, OB. 1833.] GRIEF UNSPEAKABLE. 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,... | |
 | William Mathews - English language - 1878 - 408 pages
...voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword." So, too, that great verbal artist, Tennyson, complains: "' I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...Nature, half reveal, And half conceal the soul within." De Quincey truly remarks that all our thoughts have not words corresponding to them in our yet imperfectly... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...darken'd eyes : With morning wakes the will, and cries, ,,Thou shalt not be the fool of loss." v. 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 Henry Hutchings - 1876 - 266 pages
...do its best, to unveil the inner soul, and thus have experienced the truth of the poet's lament, " For words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." Each spirit of man is, in truth, an object of faith to his fellow-man; and each glimpse of the spirit... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1878 - 688 pages
...below the darken'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, Thou shalt not be the fool of loss. 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,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...CHATTERTON. SELECTIONS FROM "IX MEMORIAM. [ARTHUR HENRY II ч .1 AM. OB. 1833.] GRIEF UNSPEAKABLE. i !2 But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise,... | |
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