 | 1865 - 962 lehte
...Problem in a Novel. By AGNES WXLDE. One Tolume, post 8vo. price 8s. 'I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones. That men may rise on etepplnu Ktones Of their dead selves to higher thutgs.' SECOND EDITION OF A MERE STORY. By the Author... | |
 | 1884 - 656 lehte
...own wilful way. It may be God's way of saving them after all. " I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." ealjr 0f AND now that Sarah was dead, Abraham came to mourn and to weep over her. But was not Abraham... | |
 | 1883 - 498 lehte
...will he realize, more vividly every day, the poet's words : — " I held it true with him who singe To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves, to higher things." THE END. obtmnfa: I. — DENHOLME. OUR New... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 lehte
...and virtue."— Gni:ot: Preface to the " Life of Washiaffloii" " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones. That men may rise...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Tennyton't " /» Memvriam." SCRAPS. TIIE SCHOLAR'S BREECHES. Mr son was lately obliged, under stress... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 lehte
...wisdom make me wise. 1849. vii IS MEMOEIAM AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXX1II. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise...Let darkness keep her raven gloss ; Ah, sweeter to he drunk with loss, To dance with death, to beat the ground ; Than that the victor Hours should scorn... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 lehte
...thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMORIAM AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise...And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drowned, ;... | |
 | Rugby sch - 1850 - 176 lehte
...bowing to it as a despot. Perfection is- above us, and we should strive to mount the ladder, knowing that men may " rise on< stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things." It is not therefore at all inconsistent with present energy to look back into the past, thougJi to... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 lehte
...wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMORIAM AHH OBIIT MDCccxxxirr. I. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise...to match ? Or reach a hand thro' time to catch The far-oif interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown'd, Let darkness keep her raven... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 lehte
...finely : — " I held it troth, with him -who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may nse on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher...And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears t" When we speak of this poem being inferior to... | |
 | 1851 - 582 lehte
...following verse, the first in this beautiful series of poems : •• I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise...on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher thing*. " The following stanza, also in the poem numbered 87., much needs interpretation : *' Or cooled... | |
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I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. 
