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" 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 72
1889 - 521 pages
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Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
..." THE PRINCESS." Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean ; Tears from the depth of some divino reddcue over one That sinks with all wo love below tho verge ; So sad, so fresh, tho days that are...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...The larger heart, the kindlier hand: Ring out the darkness of the land, 576 577 [From The Priiuxtt.] TEARS, IDLE TEARS. TEARS, idle tears, I know not what...autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as...
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Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainment: Arranged for the ...

Robert McLean Cumnock - 1882 - 420 pages
...swift river bears us to the ocean! CHABLKS DICKENS. TEARS, IDLE TEARS. PROM "THE PRINCESS" TEAES, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. 2 Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the under world; Sad...
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Little Comedies: Old and New

Julian Sturgis - 1882 - 330 pages
...Yes. — ' ' The valleys stand so thick with corn that they do laugh and sing." Elf.— " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean — Tears from the...to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields. " Jul. It is scarce autumn yet. Let it be summer still; and let us laugh with the valleys. Consider...
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The Princess, Maud, Locksley Hall, and The Talking Oak

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 348 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...
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Philosophical Approaches to Literature: New Essays on Nineteenth- and ...

William E. Cain - 1984 - 268 pages
...because so much of what the poem has to offer it offers so immediately and insistently: 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. 51 Fresh as the first beam glittering on...
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The Definition of Literature and Other Essays

W. W. Robson, William Wallace Robson - 1984 - 288 pages
...remind you of a poem which you will all know. It is taken from Tennyson's 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 are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail...
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Essays and Reviews

Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 pages
...the earth, earthy. What I am about to read is from his last long poem, "The Princess:" Tears, idle it X . Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,...
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Words that Taste Good

Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...particular bit reminds me of Tennyson: Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather...fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON A sort of sweet, rather enjoyable sadness. We all recognize that. Divine despair....
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...my pretty one, sleeps. BLPL; BoTP. FaBoBe; FaPON; MOS; NAEL-2; OxBChV; PoLF; TrGrPo 114 Tears, idle /) ] e f-c autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. 115 Dear as remembered kisses after death,...
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