 | 1894 - 712 pages
...these human events, shall no more raise his voice in protest or in praise. And the stately ships go on, To their haven under the hill ; But, oh '. for the touch of a vanished hand And the sound of a voice that is still. JAMES E. GARRETSON AS A MAN OF LETTERS. BY WILBUR F. LITCH,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 pages
...expression than in the little poem beginning, " Break, break, break : " — " And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But oh, for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still." In 1847 appeared "The Princess." The author... | |
 | 1900 - 728 pages
...And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. • And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill : But oh ! for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! « Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea !... | |
 | Edward Payson Tenney - 1896 - 232 pages
...weeks ago my cousin died, leaving her babe and her husband. He goes about the house now, crying, — " Oh for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still." "To them all," I said, "the Land of Shadow is next door to the Land of Silence. Yet it is no permanent... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 630 pages
...play! Oh, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill : But oh ! for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1896 - 432 pages
...was visible amid the yeast of troubled sea. CHAPTER XXX. ONE MISSING. "And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill, But oh ! for the touch of a vanished haud. And the sound of a voice that is still." — Tunny sott. THK multitude of anxious spectators... | |
 | Arnold Tompkins - 1897 - 376 pages
...mind and the heartbreak which he desired to produce in the reader : — " And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But oh for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! " Thus a writer or a speaker idealizes an effect desired in... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 684 pages
...play! Oh, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill: But oh! for the touch of a vanished hand. And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the... | |
 | 1898 - 348 pages
...play ! Oh, well for the sailor lad That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on, To their haven under the hill; But oh, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still' Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the... | |
 | 1898 - 770 pages
...1 And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill, But oh for the touch of a vanished hand And the sound of a voice that is still. Who has ever heard this sympathetically rendered, — a phrase... | |
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And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But oh for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still... 
