When mine eyes had wept for some while, until they were so weary with weeping that I could no longer through them give ease to my sorrow, I bethought me that a few mournful words might stand me instead of tears. And therefore I proposed to make a poem,... song and legend from the middle ages - Page 116by william d. mcclintock - 1893Full view - About this book
| 1864 - 998 pages
...iu his simple way, 'a great desire to say something in rhyme.' And later, after Beatrice's death, ' When mine eyes had wept for some while, until they...few mournful words might stand me instead of tears.' Tennyson makes the same confession. He ' lulls with song an aching heart :' he will 'out of words a... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 pages
...in his simple way, ' a great desire to say something in rhyme.' And later, after Beatrice's death, ' When mine eyes had wept for some while, until they...few mournful words might stand me instead of tears.' Tennyson makes the same confession. He ' lulls with song an aching heart :' he will ' out of words... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1874 - 564 pages
...friend, for whom I write this book, wished also that the whole of it should be in the vulgar tongue. When mine eyes had wept for some while, until they...give ease to my sorrow, I bethought me that a few mourniul words might stand me instead of tears. And therefore I proposed to make a poem, that weeping... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1874 - 504 pages
...friend, for whom I write this book, wished also that the whole of it should be in the vulgar tongue. tears. And therefore I proposed to make a poem, that...much sorrow had destroyed my spirit; and I then began ' The eyes that weep.' That this poem may seem to remain the more widowed at its dose, I will divide... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1887 - 570 pages
...friend, for whom I write this book, wished also that the whole of it should be in the vulgar tongue. When mine eyes had wept for some while, until they...sorrow had destroyed my spirit ; and I then began " The eyes that weep." That this poem may seem to remain the more widouied at its close, I will divide... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1887 - 574 pages
...friend, for whom I write this book, wished also that the whole of it should be in the vulgar tongue. When mine eyes had wept for some while, until they...could no longer through them give ease to my sorrow, 1 bethought me that a few mournful words might stand me instead of tears. And therefore I proposed... | |
| William Darnall MacClintock - 1893 - 154 pages
...sweetness over me That if my courage failed not, certainly To him my listeners must be all resign' d. Wherefore I will not speak in such large kind That...sorrow had destroyed my spirit ; and I then began : The eyes that weep for pity of the heart Have wept so long that their grief languisheth, And they... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1897 - 538 pages
...for whom I write this book, wished also that the whole of it should be in the vulgar tongue. XXXII. When mine eyes had wept for some while, until they...me that a few mournful words might stand me instead 1 Beatrice Portinari will thus be found to of her death, was twenty-four years and three have died... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1897 - 522 pages
...for whom I write this book, wished also that the whole of it should be in the vulgar tongue. XXXII. When mine eyes had wept for some while, until they...me that a few mournful words might stand me instead 1 Beatrice Portinari will thus be found to of her death, was twenty-four years and three have died... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1897 - 526 pages
...number ten. commencement of this work (vi2. that she \va* 2 Guido Cavalcanti. In Hell, x. 61-63 ne is of tears. And therefore I proposed to make a poem,...sorrow had destroyed my spirit ; and I then began "The eyes that weep." That this poem may seem to remain the more widowed at its close, I will divide... | |
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