 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...  A Third Poetry Book - Page 721889 - 521 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...with drops of rain : No platnts find passage through unwilling ears. TASSO, by FAIRFAX. Tears, idle tears, — I know not what they mean, — Tears from...fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. TENNYSON : The Princess. As through the land at eve we went, And pluck'd the ripen'd ears, We fell... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 178 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...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 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...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 a... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...Uscx<J POEMS OF SORROW AND DEATH. SORROW AND ADVERSITY. RETROSPECTION. FROM "THE PRINCESS." TEAES, idle tears, I know not what they mean Tears from the depth...glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the under world Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge, —... | |
 | Sir Wyke Bayliss - 1876 - 228 pages
...Upon my breast my child must be !" The parallel passage is from the " Princess : " — Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean ; Tears from 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 a sail,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 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...heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-h'elds, And thinking of the days that are no more. „ Fresh as the first beam glittering on... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...ALFRED TENNYSON: 1809— " The Days that are no more." From " The Princess. See p. 132. 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. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 522 pages
...the 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...heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that arc no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 462 pages
...And here and there, too, we perceive the deep expression of their large dreamy eyes : "Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the hnppy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. . . • "Dear as remember'd kisses... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pages
...TEARS are shed in playhouses than in churches. GUTHвIE, Gospel in Ezekiel, chap. xv. — TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. TENNYSON, The Princess, canto IT. — The big round TEARS Cours'd one another down his innocent nose... | |
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