 I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, — How long ago I may not know : But just when at that swallow's...  Profit & Loss - Page 89by Amelia E. Barr - 1916 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1870 - 786 pages
...the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. 44 You have been mine before, — How long ago I may...not know : But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore." And here is this poetry of the nerves... | |
 | Literature - 1870 - 444 pages
...the grass beyond the door, The sweet, keen sme'.l. The sighing sound, the llghtc iround the shore. " You have been mine before, — How long ago I may not know ; But just when at that swallow's eoar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. " Then, now, — perchance... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 pages
...know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, — How long ago I may...not know : But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before ? And shall... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1878 - 462 pages
...know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, — How long ago I may...not know : But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before ? And shall... | |
 | William Sharp - Artists - 1882 - 474 pages
...the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. " You have been mine before, — How long ago I may...not know : But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. " Has this been thus before ? And shall... | |
 | North American review - 1884 - 662 pages
...know the grass beyond the door, The sweet, keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. "You have been mine before, — How long ago I may...not know : But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall,— I knew it all of yore." Walter Scott, too, spoke of it as the... | |
 | George Hawkins Pember - Bible and spiritualism - 1884 - 504 pages
...keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. " You have been mine before—- How long I may not know : But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall — I knew it all of yore. " Then, now — perchance again ! O round... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1886 - 626 pages
...know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, — How long ago I may...not know : But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before ? And shall... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Table-talk - 1886 - 440 pages
...I know tbe grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around shore. .You have been mine before— How long ago I may not know; But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turn'd so. Some veil did fall-I knew It all of jore. Has this been thus before? And shall not... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1887 - 338 pages
...know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, — How long ago I may...not know: But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before ? And shall... | |
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