other friends remain,' That 'loss is common to the race' — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more. Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some... In Memoriam A.H.H. - Page 16by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
| Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...thoughts of happy and rejoicing creatures over whom the dark but as yet unfelt doom has already broken. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter,...some heart did break. O father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledges! now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be done, Hath stilled the life that... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...writes, that " Other friends remain," That " Loss is common to the race,"And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is...some heart did break. O father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledges! now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be done, Hath stilled the life that... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is...morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. 0 father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledgest now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is...morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. 0 father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledgest now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught he... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...common ! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. 0 father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledgest now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be done Hath still'd the life that beat from thee. O mother, praying God will save Thy sailor, — while thy head... | |
| United States - 1850 - 622 pages
...following, though a few lines may be a little obscure : " O, Father ! wheresoe'er thon be, That pledges! now thy gallant son; A shot, ere half thy draught be done, Hath stilled the life tnat beat for thee. O, Mother ! praying God will save Thy sailor, while thy head is... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is...some heart did break. O father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledgest now thy gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be done, Hath still'd the life that... | |
| Electronic journals - 1856 - 730 pages
...the admirers of Tennyson to compare the stanzas in vi. : — " Oh father, wheresoe'er thou be, That pledgest now thy gallant son, A shot, ere half thy draught be done, Hath still'd the life that beat from thee. /' Oh mother, praying God will save Thy sailor — while thy... | |
| Terence - Latin drama - 1857 - 744 pages
...Demipho is purposely made to talk gravely, we may compare Tennyson's beautiful turn of this idea : " That loss is common would not make My own less bitter...morning wore To evening, but some heart did break." (In Memoriam, VI.) Quicquid praeter spem eveniat omne id deputare esse in lucro. Ge. O Phaedria, incredibile... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1859 - 234 pages
...that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race'—- And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is...gallant son ; A shot, ere half thy draught be done, Hath still'd the life that beat from thee. O mother, praying God will save • Thy sailor,—while thy head... | |
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