| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1910 - 330 pages
...breath till they left the room, With a shudder, to glance at its stillness and gloom. TOL. 1-6 )29 But he who loved her too well to dread The sweet,...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... | |
| Poetry - 1912 - 616 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... | |
| Readers - 1912 - 584 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, 384 He and she ;... | |
| Myrtle Reed - American fiction - 1913 - 408 pages
...together for a moment at the end. For such a meeting as that there are no words but Edwin Arnold's : "But he — who loved her too well to dread The sweet,...key, And turn'd it ! — alone again — he and she ! " For him there was not even a glimpse of her as she lay in her coffin, nor a whisper that some day,... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 698 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 the... | |
| Sir Edwin Arnold - 1920 - 288 pages
...roses, and rosemary ; And they said, " As a 'ady 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... | |
| Fiction - 1920 - 264 pages
...a lady should lie, lies she." And they held their breath till they left the room, With a shudder, a glance at its stillness and gloom. But he who loved...stately, the beautiful dead, He lit his lamp, and he took the key And turned it — alone again, he and she. He and she; but she would not speak, Though... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 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... | |
| Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1927 - 378 pages
...tell ; About her brows, and her dear, pale face, They tied her veil and her marriage-lace; And drew on her white feet her white silk shoes; Which were 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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1106 pages
...roses, and rosemary ; And they said, "As a lady should lie, lies she." And they held their breath till praise. T. PARNELL. Or if Sion hill Delight thee...God. Paradise Lost, Book i. MILTON. THE CHRISTIAN turned it. Alone again — he and she ! He and she ; but she would not speak, Though he kissed, in... | |
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