| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pages
...sudden frost was sudden gain, And gave all ripeness to the grain, It might have drawn from after-heat.' I wage not any feud with Death For changes wrought...state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but theshatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue... | |
| Jirah Dewey Buck - Human beings - 1889 - 330 pages
...! the hypocrisy over death in the presence of the mystery and the wasted opportunities of life ! " I wage not any feud with Death For changes wrought...walks ; And these are but the shattered stalks, Or ruined chrysalis of one. "How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine affections hold, Should... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Academic achievement - 1889 - 894 pages
...was sudden gain, And gave all ripeness to the grain, It might have drawn from after-heat.' LXXXII. I wage not any feud with Death For changes wrought...to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...was sudden gain, And gave all ripeness to the grain, It might have drawn from after-heat." ] .XXXII. I wage not any feud with Death For changes wrought...state to state the spirit walks; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 pages
...sudden frost was sudden gain, And gave all ripeness to the grain, It might have drawn from after-heat.' I wage not any feud with Death For changes wrought...state to state the spirit walks; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue... | |
| Jacob Bentley Graw - Methodist women - 1892 - 324 pages
...them break the sunlight and the rainbow of hope, and joy, and love and faith appear; and so, dear, " I wage not any feud with Death For changes wrought...life that earth's embrace May breed with him, can fight my faith. "Eternal process moving on From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but... | |
| Jacob Bentley Graw - Methodist women - 1892 - 324 pages
...changes wrought on form and face ; No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him, can fight my faith. "Eternal process moving on From state to...walks ; And these are but the shattered stalks Or ruined chrysalis of one. " Nor blame I Death, because he fare The use of virtue out of earth ; I know... | |
| James Baldwin - Elegiac poetry - 1893 - 312 pages
...was sudden gain, And gave all ripeness to the grain, It might have drawn from after-heat." LXXXII. I wage not any feud with Death For -changes wrought...walks ; And these are but the shattered stalks, Or ruined chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth : I know... | |
| James Baldwin - Elegiac poetry - 1893 - 312 pages
...was sudden gain, And gave all ripeness to the grain, It might have drawn from after-heat." LXXXII. I wage not any feud with Death For changes wrought...walks ; And these are but the shattered stalks, Or ruined chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth : I know... | |
| John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 408 pages
...loveliness Which once he made more lovely." And Tennyson, after the first cry of despair, could murmur — I wage not any feud with death For changes wrought on form and face, and thus is led imperceptibly to the confession that he has suffered no injury by the removal of his... | |
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