| Giles Badger Stebbins - Materialism - 1880 - 156 pages
...breaths, as they left the room With a shudder, to glance at its stillness and gloom. But he who laved her too well to dread The sweet , the stately, the beautiful dead, — He lit his lamp and took his key And turned it, — alone were he and she." From the eternal being of God, the next step is... | |
| Gus Williams - 1881 - 556 pages
...and nothing there But silence, and scents of eglantere, And jasmine, and roses, and rosemary ; And they said : " As a lady should lie lies she." And...beautiful dead, He lit his lamp and took the key And tinned it — alone again — he and she. He and she : but she Would not speak, Tho' he kissed, in... | |
| American poetry - 1881 - 202 pages
...at its stillness and gloom; But he — who loved her too well to dread The stately, the lovely, and the beautiful dead — He lit his lamp, and took the key And turned it. Alone again he and she, He and she ; but she would not speak, Though he kissed in the old... | |
| Sir Edwin Arnold - Buddhism - 1882 - 528 pages
...roses, and rosemary ; And they said, " As a lady should lie, lies she." And they held their breath till they left the room, With a shudder, to glance at its...beautiful dead, He lit his lamp and took the key And turned it — alone again — he and she. He and she ; but she would not speak, Though he kissed, in... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...they held their breath as they left the room, With a shudder to glance at. its stillARNOLD. Cut ho — who loved her too well to dread The sweet, the stately, the beautiful dead, — He lit his lamp, aud look the key, And turn'il it! — Alone again — he and she! He and she; but she would not speak.... | |
| Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1883 - 842 pages
...roses, and rosemary; And they said, " As a lady should lie, lies she," And they held their breath till they left the room With a shudder, to glance at its...beautiful dead, He lit his lamp and took the key And turned it — alone again — he and she, He and she ; but she would not speak, Though he kissed, in... | |
| Sir Edwin Arnold - Buddha and Buddhism - 1883 - 292 pages
...rose0 and rosemary ; And they said, " As a lady should lie, lies she." And tney held their breath till they left the room, With a shudder, to glance at its...beautiful dead, He lit his lamp and took the key And turned it — alone again — he and she. He and she ; but she would not speak, Though he kissed, in... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1883 - 382 pages
...secret of dying, dear? '' Was it the infinite wonder of all That you ever could let life's flower fall? But he who loved her too well to dread The sweet, the stately, the beautiful dead, '' Or was it a greater marvel to feel The perfect calm o'er the agony steal? •^ Was the miracle greater... | |
| Sir Edwin Arnold - Death - 1885 - 424 pages
...of the eglantere, And jasmine, and roses, and rosemary ; For they said, " As a lady should lie, lias she ! " And they held their breath as they left the...beautiful Dead, — He lit his lamp, and took the key, And turned it ! — Alone again — he and she ! He and she ; but she would not speak, Though he kiss'd,... | |
| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - American poetry - 1886 - 746 pages
...roses and rosemary; And they said, "As a lady should lie, lies she." 17 And they held their breath till they left the room, With a shudder, to glance at its...beautiful dead, He lit his lamp, and took the key And turned it — alone again — he and she. He and she; but she would not speak, Though he kissed, in... | |
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