 She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple...  The Williams Quarterly - Page 2371857Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...My heart would hear her, and beat, Wore it earth in an earthy bed. My dust would hear her, and heat, Had I lain for a century dead: Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. [From Maud.] OO NOT, HAPPY DAT. Go not, happy day, From the shining fields, Go not, happy day, Till... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 542 pages
...it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red." W« do not remember a garden scene in poetry that surpasses this for delicacy and beauty, and for the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pages
...it earth in an earthy bed ; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain lor a ceniury dead ; Woul'i start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red." The gentle maid answers to the invocation, and is followed into the garden by her brother; he insults the... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth In an earthy bed ; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. Maud comes forth to meet her lover : her brother and the " new made lord" surprise them, and the tale... | |
 | 1855 - 498 pages
...it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed : My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...under her feet, And blossom in purple and red." The Married Life of Pachel, Lady Bussett. By M. Guizot. (London, Bosworth.) This little work is a translation... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 436 pages
...whispers, ' I wait.' 11. My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed ; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. XXII. I. 1 THE fault was mine, the fault was mine ' — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and still,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 176 pages
...whispers, * I wait.* 11. My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed ; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. MAUD. XXII. 1. * THE fault was mine, the fault was mine ' — Why am I sitting here so stunn'd and... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1855 - 440 pages
...it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed ; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century...tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. LOVE'S REVENGE. I HAVE led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none. And never... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 1416 pages
...it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her ami beat, \\Vn- it earth in an earthy bed ; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead ; Would start a;iii tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. Maud comes forth to meet her lover : her... | |
 | England - 1855 - 812 pages
...heart would hear her anil beat, Were It earth In an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, liad 1 lain for a century dead ; Would start and tremble under her feet, Лиа ЫоЕбот in purple and red.'1 Little more of story is there. The lovers are surprised in... | |
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