 O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still...  The money lender - Seite 216von Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1854 - 243 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Ronald Grant - 1870 - 252 Seiten
...he sings in his boat on the bay I And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, 0 Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1897 - 1172 Seiten
...would be an intense longing for a lost or irrecoverable human sympathy which would lead me to cry out: But oh for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! The frost and glitter of the North, and the relentless beat of the waves, make the despair... | |
 | Lady Mary Anne HARDY - 1870 - 342 Seiten
...Fortunate indeed are they who can look back on those old foolish days without echoing the words — • " Oh for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! " As their voices died away upon the wind the rowers bent to their oars again, and soon... | |
 | lady Mary Anne Hardy - 1870 - 356 Seiten
...upwards, even until the last. The tears gather in his eyes, his heart climbs up into his throat, he pines for " the touch of a vanish'd hand And the sound of a voice that is still." He knows now how he loved the girl-wife who went to her grave, and knew it not ! Mabel... | |
 | 1891 - 1020 Seiten
...beauty comes into both of the poems when we read them side by side. For the early cry of longing, But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! finds an answer in the later assurance of consolation, And all along the valley, by... | |
 | Massachusetts Bible Society - 1870 - 716 Seiten
...Hope before him, and his weeping was changed into joy. That bereaved one with smitten heart, sighing for . . . the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! came hither for its holy consolations, and heard a precious message falling from the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 Seiten
...he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still I Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day... | |
 | George Frederick Jackson - 1871 - 174 Seiten
...G. FREDERIC JACKSON. EDITED, WITH A SHORT BIOGRAPHY, BY HIS BROTHER, THE REV. H. MARSHALL JACKSON. O for the touch of a vanish'd hand And the sound of a voice that is "UouSon : JT HAYES, LYALL PLACE, EATON SQUARE; & 4, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. LONDON... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 186 Seiten
...he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 Seiten
...he sings in his boat on the bay I And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still. Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea I But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to... | |
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