...you say — " It would have been a beauteous dream, If it had been no more ? " Xay, rather echo — " I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it, when I sorrow most : "Pis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." For, besides His nearness who...

...common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. Isongfettow. I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most; "Tig better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. Tennyson. Gather ye rosebuds while...

...more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise. — Pope. , I hold it true whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. — Tennyson. Sleep soft, beloved, we sometimes say, But have no time...

...forsitan audiat, Immune amoris pedtus abominor, Torpore dum marcet situque; Odi animum insipienter aequum. I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. In Memoriam, xxvn. Fortuna quicquid saeviet; hoc mea, Hoc mente fixum...

...emotion we lose ourselves f Have we not often realised the truth of the words of a great thinker — " I hold it true whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow most, "Pis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all? " Why do we regard the worn and...

...tenderness and elegance few prose men of his day could have rivalled. Tennyson's words are these : — " I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.'" In Mcmoriam, xxvii. Congreve's pretty thought is not quite a parallel...

...The heart that never plighted troth, But stagnates in the weeds of sloth, Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most': 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. tractdbilis, " open to the touch of sympathy." — difftmdantur, "expand...

...the third and fourth lines, imparts an uncommon tone, — • / " I hold it true whate'er befall ; II feel it when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Thau never to have loved at all." The lost friend, dying at Vienna, was borne to England and buried...

...The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth ; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it, when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. XXVIII. HE time draws near the birth of Christ : The moon is hid ;...

...The heart that never plighted troth, But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate'er befall, — I feel it when...sorrow most, — 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. cv. RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty...