 In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. " It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all....  The Coming of Arthur: And Other Idylls of the King - Page 157by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1896 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Amelia B. Edwards - English poetry - 1878 - 376 pages
...rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. The little rift within the lover's lute, Or little pitted speck in garnered fruit, That rotting inward slowly moulders all. It is not worth the keeping; let it go: But... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1879 - 246 pages
...rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. ' The little rift within the lover's lute Or little...answer, no. And trust me not at all or all in all.' U, master, do ye love my tender rhyme?" And Merlin look'd and half believed her true, So tender was... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. ' The little rift within the lover's lute Or little pitted speck in (turner'd fruit. That rotting inward slowly moulders all. 'it is not worth the keeping: let it Jut... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...rift within the lute, 5 That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. The little rift within the lover's lute, Or little...garner'd fruit, That rotting inward slowly moulders all. 10 It is not worth the keeping: let it go: But shall it? answer, darling, answer, no. And trust me... | |
 | Rosa Nouchette Carey - 1880 - 450 pages
...tears, I lay, watching the moon wane, and the cool glimmering light dawning in the east. CHAPTER XXXVII. 'The little rift within the lover's lute, Or little...garner'd fruit, That rotting inward slowly moulders all.* — Tennyson. THAT was a strange time for us, when the grave master of the house went courting down... | |
 | Walter Lewin - 1880 - 368 pages
...prepared even to prove that the evil we think we find interwoven with much of her writings to be " The little rift within the lover's lute, Or little...garner'd fruit, That rotting inward slowly moulders all ? " Unless we can show clearly that the eventual tendency be against the practice of virtue, and sweet... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1880 - 704 pages
...rift within the lute, That by ami by will make the nimio mute ; And ever widening slowly silence nlL ' The little rift within the lover's lute Or little...garner'd fruit, That rotting inward slowly moulders all.' So the clouds began to darken about the heads of Arthur and his Order. Many of the knights were lost... | |
 | 1880 - 690 pages
...within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute ; And ever widening slowly silence all. ' Ths little rift within the lover's lute Or little pitted...garner'd fruit, That rotting inward slowly moulders all.' So the clouds began to darken about the heads of Arthur and his Order. Many of the knights were lost... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - Poetry - 1880 - 354 pages
...things, the significance of small beginnings. People say " It is nought, it is nought ;" but it is the " Little pitted speck in garner'd fruit, That, rotting inward, slowly moulders all." It is " The little rift within the lute, That by-and-by will make the music mute ; " the plague-spot, before... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - Poetry - 1880 - 356 pages
...things, the significance of small beginnings. People say " It is nought, it is nought ;" but it is the " Little pitted speck in garner'd fruit, That, rotting inward, slowly moulders all." It is " The little rift within the lute, That by-and-by will make the music mute ; " the plague-spot, before... | |
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