Now, sometimes in my sorrow shut, Or breaking into song by fits, Alone, alone, to where he sits, The Shadow cloak'd from head to foot, Who keeps the keys of all the creeds, I wander, often falling lame, And looking back to whence I came, Or on to where... Our Day - Page 341891Full view - About this book
| 1862
...sanctity of death attaches to them ; a saddened majesty. They learn somewhat from their intercourse with "the shadow, cloaked from head to foot, who keeps the keys of all the creeds." Many of the minor moods and keys of nature and humanity are henceforth musical to them. Thoughts and... | |
| 1875 - 828 pages
...it. The cultured citizen of England, as the uncultivated negro of Africa, shrinks in terror from " The shadow cloaked from head to foot, Who keeps the keys of all the creeds ;' ' the terror in the former being perhaps less violently manifested (but not less keenly felt) than... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...XXIII. Now, sometimes in my sorrow shut, Or breaking into song by fits ; Alone, alone, to where he sits, The Shadow cloaked from head to foot Who keeps the keys of all the creeds, I wander, often falling lame, And looking back to whence I came, Or on to where the pathway leads ;... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...my sorrow shut, Or breaking into song by fits ; Alone, alone, to where he sits, The Shadow cloak 'd from head to foot Who keeps the keys of all the creeds, I wander, often falling lame, And looking back to whence I came, Or on to where the pathway leads ;... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...my sorrow shut, Or breaking into song by fits ; Alone, alone, to where he sits, The Shadow cloak 'd from head to foot Who keeps the keys of all the creeds, I wander, often falling lame, And looking back to whence I came, Or on to where the pathway leads ;... | |
| Electronic journals - 1876 - 602 pages
...believer may be IMS faithful than he who honestly doubts while waiting for — " The Shadow cloak'd from head to foot Who keeps the keys of all the creeds." XPD ADDISON : BEST (5tt S. vi. 29, 173, 236, 319.)Much information concerning the Addison family may... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 pages
...my sorrow shut, Or breaking into song by fits ; Alone, alone, to where he sits, The Shadow cloak'd from head to foot, Who keeps the keys of all the creeds, I wander, often falling lame, And looking back to whence I came, Or on to where the pathway leads ;... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...my sorrow shut, Or breaking into song by fits ; Alone, alone, to where he sits, The Shadow cloak' d from head to foot, Who keeps the keys of all the creeds, I wander, often falling lame, And looking back to whence I came, Or on to where the pathway leads ;... | |
| Walter White - Bohemia (Czech Republic) - 1857 - 330 pages
...of the streets, and the spell wrought upon you by the brief saunter where sits " The Shadow cloak'd from head to foot Who keeps the keys of all the creeds," is broken with a shock. And by-and-by, when in the noisier thoroughfares, vague fancies will come to... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pages
...XXJ11. Now, sometimes in my sorrow shut, Or breaking into song by fits ; Alone, alone, to where he sits, The Shadow cloaked from head to foot, Who keeps the keys of all the creeds, I wander, often falling lame, And looking back to whence I came, Or on to where the pathway leads ;... | |
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