 | 1855 - 744 pages
...we look on the boundless plain of the ocean. So obvious as to be used by way of illustration — " Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the under world; Sad as the last that reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge." If... | |
 | 1855 - 798 pages
...JUNE. ,"Teut, idle tears, I know not »bat they mean, Tears from the depth (if some divine despair, In looking on the happy Autumn fields And thinking of the days that are no more." " care not while we hear \ trumpet in the distance pealing news Of better, and hope, a poising eagle,... | |
 | Mary Henderson Eastman - American fiction - 1856 - 406 pages
...these beautiful words." She played part of the air as a prelude, and then sang: — <; Tears, 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 ;... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...longMss my whole soul through y lips, as simlight drinketh dew. The Princess. Canto iv. Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are... | |
 | Great Britain - 1857 - 498 pages
...the other in the poem called the " Fountain." Tennyson's exquisite poem is well known : " 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,... | |
 | 1857 - 494 pages
...the other in the poem called the " Fountain." Tennyson's exquisite poem is well known : " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean ; Tears from the...Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking ou the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1857 - 904 pages
...city above. May the Lord grant it. TKARS, idle tears T know not what they mean, Tears fiom the depths 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. — TENNYSON. •SERVANT PLAGUE." BT J08KPII08.... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 492 pages
...poem is well known : " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean ; Tears from the depth of somo 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 sail,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 388 pages
...of the earth, earthy. I am about to read is from his last long poem, " The Prineess : " 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. 244 Fresh as the first beam glittering on... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 332 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...heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. 244 Fresh as the first beam glittering on... | |
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