 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 600 pages
...gesture anon respond ; Startling my fancy fond With a chanco attitude of the head, a freak of beauty. • Thy hand clasps, as 'twas wont, my finger, and holds...closing — Go lie thou there in thy coffin, thy last littlo bed ! — Propping thy wise, sad head, Thy firm, pale hands across thy chest disposing. ' So... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - 1900 - 330 pages
...gesture anon respond : Startling my fancy fond With a chance attitude of the head, a freak of beauty. Thy hand clasps, as 'twas wont, my finger, and holds...lie thou there in thy coffin, thy last little bed 1 — Propping thy wise, sad head, Thy firm, pale hands across thy chest disposing. So quiet 1 doth... | |
 | Charles Lewis Hind - 1902 - 232 pages
...hold of me in snatches — these snatches : Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee. . . . So I lay thee there, thy sunken eyelids closing. Go...thy last little bed ! Propping thy wise, sad head. . . . So quiet ! Doth the change content thee ? I went back to the shop. ' I'll take this book,' I... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1918 - 1116 pages
...gesture anon respond ; Startling my fancy fond With a chance attitude of the head, a freak of beauty. Thy hand clasps, as 'twas wont, my finger, and holds...heartbreaking and stiff; Yet feels to my hand as if 'T\vas still thy will, thy pleasure and trust that enfolds it. So I lay thee there, thy sunken eyelids... | |
 | English Association - 1919 - 196 pages
...gesture anon respond ; Startling my fancy fond With a chance attitude of the head, a freak of beauty. Thy hand clasps, as 'twas wont, my finger, and holds...lie thou there in thy coffin, thy last little bed I — Propping thy wise, sad head, Thy firm, pale hands across thy chest disposing. So quiet ! doth... | |
 | Thomas Caldwell - 1922 - 432 pages
...gesture anon respond ; Startling my fancy fond With a chance attitude of the head, a freak of beauty. Thy hand clasps, as 'twas wont, my finger, and holds...thy will, thy pleasure and trust that enfolds it. Propping thy wise, sad head, Thy firm, pale hands across thy chest disposing. So I lay thee there,... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - 1922 - 460 pages
...gesture anon respond; Startling my fancy fond With a chance attitude of the head, a freak of beauty. Thy hand clasps, as 'twas wont, my finger, and holds...clasp of Death, heartbreaking and stiff; Yet feels my hand as if 'Twas still thy will, thy pleasure and trust that enfolds it. So I lay thee there, thy... | |
 | Laurence Binyon - 1924 - 392 pages
...gesture anon respond ; Startling my fancy fond With a chance attitude of the head, a freak of beauty. Thy hand clasps, as 'twas wont, my finger, and holds...enfolds it. So I lay thee there, thy sunken eyelids closingGo lie thou there in thy coffin, thy last little bed !— Propping thy wise, sad head, Thy firm,... | |
 | Michael Wheeler - 1994 - 314 pages
...however, maintains the idealizing tone: So I lay thee there, thy sunken eyelids closing, Go lie then there in thy coffin, thy last little bed! Propping...wise, sad head, Thy firm, pale hands across thy chest disposing.46 Much twentieth-century criticism on the treatment of the death of children in Victorian... | |
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Startling my fancy fond With a chance attitude of the head, a freak of beauty. Thy hand clasps, as 'twas wont, my finger, and holds it: But the grasp is the clasp of Death, heartbreaking and stiff; Yet feels to my hand as if 'Twas still thy will, thy... 