 To send abroad a shrill and terrible cry, Which in one moment, like the blast of doom, Would shatter all the happiness of the hearth. He therefore turning softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate...  Het Leeskabinet - Page 271888Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1864 - 496 pages
...place, Ixird of his righti and of his children's love — Then he, though Miriam Lane had told higi all, Because things seen are mightier than things heard,...doom, Would shatter all the happiness of the hearth. " He therefore — turning softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate under foot, And... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1864 - 240 pages
...place, Lord of his rights and of his children's love, — Then he, tho' Miriam Lane had told him all, Because things seen are mightier than things heard,...doom, Would shatter all the happiness of the hearth. He therefore turning softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot, And feeling... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1864 - 1864 - 200 pages
...place, Lord of his rights and of his children's love, — Then he, tho' Miriam Lane had told him all, Because things seen are mightier than things heard,...doom, Would shatter all the happiness of the hearth. He therefore turning softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot, And feeling... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 546 pages
...and of his children's love,— Then he, tho' Miriam Lane had told him all, Because things seen arc mightier than things heard, Stagger'd and shook, holding...doom, Would shatter all the happiness of the hearth. He therefore turning softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot, And feeling... | |
 | 1864 - 560 pages
...pluce, Lord of bis rights and of his children's love — Then he, tho' Miriam Lane had told him all, Because things seen are mightier than things heard,...cry, Which in one moment, like the blast of doom, Wonltl shatter all the happiness of the hearth. He therefore turning softly, like a thief. Lest the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - English poetry - 1864 - 240 pages
...he, tho' Miriam Lane had told him all, Because things seen are mightier than things heard, StaggerM and shook, holding the branch, and fear'd To send...doom, Would shatter all the happiness of the hearth. He therefore turning softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot, And feeling... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...Because things seen are mightier than thiugs heard, Staggered and shook, holding the branch, and feared To send abroad a shrill and terrible cry, Which in...doom, Would shatter all the happiness of the hearth. He therefore turning softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot, And feeling... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Poetry, Modern - 1865 - 214 pages
...place, Lord of his rights and of his children's love, — Then he, tho' Miriam Lane had told him all, Because things seen are mightier than things heard,...doom, Would shatter all the happiness of the hearth. He therefore turning softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot, And feeling... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1865 - 136 pages
...Because things seen are mightier than things heard, Staggered and shook, holding the branch, and feared To send abroad a shrill and terrible cry, Which in...doom, Would shatter all the happiness. of the hearth. He therefore turning softly, like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate under foot, And feeling... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1865 - 858 pages
...things seen arc mightier than things heard, Stnggor'd and shook, holding the branch, aud foar'd To Fend abroad a shrill and terrible cry. Which in one moment, like the blast of doom, Would shatter all tho happiness of the hCArth." — p. 35. He steals back and hides himself. This is not natural ; still... | |
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