 TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on...  History of English Literature - Page 528by Hippolyte Taine - 1871Full view - About this book
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...long, That on the stretched forefinger of all time, Sparkle forever. The Princess. Canto u. Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Ibid. Canto Iv. Dear as remembered kisses... | |
 | Anne Mozley - Conduct of life - 1865 - 374 pages
...which express so well our idea of the pathetic as Tennyson's " divine despair " : — t " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...heart and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more." Something of the irrevocable — of loss... | |
 | Anne Mozley - Conduct of life - 1865 - 364 pages
...which express so well our idea of the pathetic as Tennyson's " divine despair " : — " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...heart and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. " Something of the irrevocable — of loss... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1866 - 398 pages
...minutes fledged with music ; " and a maid, Of those beside her, smote her harp, and sang. " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. " Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1866 - 222 pages
...minutes fledged with music :' and a maid, Of those beside her, smote her harp, and sang. " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. " Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - English poetry - 1866 - 306 pages
...Illius, illius Da, quicquid audit : nec silebunt Qui numeri placuere vivo. TEARS, IDLE TEARS. TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, • That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...tongue. J. THOMSON' 937 THE DAYS THAT ARE KO MORE HPEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, J. tears from the depth of some divine despair, rise...Autumn-fields, and thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail that brings our friends up from the underworld, sad as... | |
 | George H. STRUTT - 1866 - 260 pages
...one source their smiles and tears ! 11. Glassfuni Bell. CXX. THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE. Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking at the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 332 pages
...earth, earthy. What I am about to read is from his last long poem, " The Princess : " — Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In iooking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam... | |
 | Robert Cowtan - 1866 - 436 pages
...face of nature, and think of those I love, I weep — " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they menn, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in...heart and gather to the eyes. In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more." In parting with my book, and with my readers,... | |
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