 Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the...  The Princess: A Medley - Page 160by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 183 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care : More as the double-natured Poet, each : ^Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words ; And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, Sit side by sidei full-summ'd in all their powers, Dispensing harvest, sowing... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1852 - 494 pages
...height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself unto man Like perfect music unto noble words, • **•#* Let this prond watchword rest Of EQUAL ;... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1830 - 426 pages
...world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind j Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words ; And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, Sit side by side, full-summ'd in all their powers, Dispensing harvest, sowing... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till...perfect music unto noble words: And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time. Sit side by side, full-summed in all their powers. Dispensing harvest, sowing... | |
 | 1848 - 620 pages
...She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care : More as the double-natured Poet each — • 'I'il I at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words.' — p. 156. If any shade of doubt has ever rested on such plain truths as these (and would that Mr.... | |
 | Criticism - 1849 - 660 pages
...the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care : More as the double-natured poet each : Till at the last she set herself to man. Like perfect music unto noble words." " And this proud watchword rest Of equal ; seeing either sex alone Is half itself, and in true marriage lies... | |
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...height. Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care. Nor lose the child-like in the larger mind ;...herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words. *»*•»* Then comes the statelier Eden back to men : Then reign the world's great bridals, chaste... | |
 | East India college - 1845 - 620 pages
...the world ; She menial breadth, nor fail in child-ward care ; More as I he double-natured poet each : Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unio noble words." In a page or two further on, the Prince describes his mother: — "One Not learned,... | |
 | 1848 - 796 pages
...world ; • She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care ; More as the double-natured poet each : Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words ; And so these twain upon the skirts of time, Sit side by side, full summed in all their powers, Dispensing harvest, sowing... | |
 | 1848 - 540 pages
...the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care : More as the double-natured poet each : Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words ; And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, Sit side by side, full-summ'd in all their powers, Dispensing harvest, sowing... | |
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