O sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the skies, And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to me that cannot rise, And sweet is all the land about, and all the flowers that blow, And sweeter far is death than life to me that long to go. The Christian Pioneer - Page 601744Full view - About this book
| Children's literature - 1842 - 414 pages
...Guide, Keep me ever near thy side. THE DYING GIRL. BY ALFRED TENNYSON. I THOUGHT to pass ;iv. ;> y before, and yet alive I am ; And in the fields all...O sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the sides, And sweeter isthe young lamb's voice to me that cannot rise. And sweet is all the land about,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...rise upon the glad New-year, So, if you're waking, call me, call me early, mother dear. CONCLUSION. I THOUGHT to pass away before, and yet alive I am...before the snowdrop came, and now the violet's here. ii. O sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the skies, And sweeter is the young lamb's voice... | |
| Christianity - 1842 - 750 pages
...glad to find in this new edition a very beautiful conclusion, which we now present to them entire. " I THOUGHT to pass away before, and yet alive I am...before the snowdrop came, and now the violet's here. " 0 sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the skies, And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to... | |
| English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...past without regret, and on the future without fear : " In smiles she hid her grief to lessen ours." " I thought to pass away before, and yet alive I am...year ! To die before the snowdrop came, and now the violet 's here. It seemed so hard at first, mother, to leave the blessed sun, And now it seems as hard... | |
| Christianity - 1842 - 740 pages
...glad to find in this new edition a very beautiful conclusion, which we now present to them entire. " I THOUGHT to pass away before, and yet alive I am...fields all round I hear the bleating of the lamb. Hon- sadly, I remember, rose the morning of tbe year! To die before the snowdrop came, and now the... | |
| 1842 - 736 pages
...glad to find in this new edition a very beautiful conclusion, which we now present to them entire. " I THOUGHT to pass away before, and yet alive I am ; And in the fields all round I bear tbe bleating of the lamb. How sadly, I remember, rose the morning of the year! To die before the... | |
| English literature - 1843 - 594 pages
...of all the thousand poems, we will venture to say that not one would have resembled this :— >• ' I thought to pass away before, and yet alive I am...before the snowdrop came, and now the violet's here, ' 0 sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the skies, And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...rise upon the glad New-year, So, if you're waking, call me, call me early, mother dear. CONCLUSION. i. I THOUGHT to pass away before, and yet alive I am...before the snowdrop came, and now the violet's here. n. O sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the skies, And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to... | |
| English literature - 1843 - 596 pages
...But of all the thousand poems, we will venture to say that not one would have resembled this : — ' I thought to pass away before, and yet alive I am...How sadly, I remember, rose the morning of the year I To die before the snowdrop came, and now the violet's here. ' O sweet is the new violet, that comes... | |
| 1843 - 594 pages
...year 1 To die before the snowdrop came, and now the violet's here. 1843. Tennyson's Poems. ' 381 ' O sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the...skies, And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to me that cannot risef And sweet is all the land about, and all the flowers that blow, And sweeter far is death... | |
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