 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 Princess: A Medley - Page 171by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 182 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...these twain, upon the skirts of Time, Sit side by sidei full-summ'd in all their powers, Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-be, Self-reverent each and... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1852 - 494 pages
...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...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
...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 larger mind j Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words ; And so these twain,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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...twain, upon the skirts of Time. Sit side by side, full-summed in all their powers. Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-be, Self-reverent each and reverencing... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1853 - 672 pages
...childward care ; More of the double-natured poet each : Till at the last she set herself to man As perfect music unto noble words. And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, Sit side by side, full summed in nil their powers, Self reverent each, and reverencing each ; Distinct in individualities,... | |
 | 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 - 572 pages
...: More as the double-natnr'd Poet each: Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect mutic unto noble words ; And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, Sit side by side, foll-summ'd in all their powers, Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-be, Self-reverent each and reverencing... | |
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