 | John Saunders - 1862 - 360 pages
...came into her wintry grey eyes, as she stood at the window listening to the stranger's voice — " — looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more." As to him, he by no means reciprocated the widow's state of feeling. He evidently thought of nothing... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 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... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1863 - 432 pages
...more hear in this world, and I am a child once more by the side of the unchangeful sea. Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean — tears from the...despair, rise in the heart and gather to the eyes, whenever this odour greets me, and even Latin Terse refuses to perform its critical function. ' There... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 888 pages
...world, and I am a child once more by the side of the uncharigeful sea. Tears, idle tears, I know nui what they mean — tears from the depth of some divine...despair, rise in the heart and gather to the eyes, whenever this odour greets mcC and even Latin verserefuses to purform its critical function. 306 307... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1864 - 350 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...fields, And thinking of the days that are no more." Something of the irrevocable — of loss which cannot be restored — enters surely into all pathos,... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Calisthenics - 1864 - 434 pages
...poems, the degree of force is between the loud and the moderate. THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE. Tears, idle tears ! I know not what they mean, Tears, from the...fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds To dying ears,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1864 - 516 pages
...foliage underneath, And sated with the innumerable rose Beat balm upon our eye-lids. 2. 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. Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And... | |
 | Epes Sargent - African Americans - 1864 - 708 pages
...parted, each retiring to his state-room for repose. CHAPTEE XII. THE STORY OF ESTELLE. "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." Tennyson. BALMY, bright, and beautiful broke... | |
 | Florence Williamson, William Kirkus - 1864 - 412 pages
..." Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair, Bise in the heart and gather to the eyes In looking on...fields, And thinking of the days that are no more." But did autumn and winter, with fire and lamp, make the warm and cosy library cheerless and lonely... | |
 | American poetry - 1864 - 152 pages
...chattering discord in their note. THOMSON. A DAY IN AUTUMN. 101 TEARS. (FROM " 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, fn looking on the happy Autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. TENNYSON. A DAY IN... | |
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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... 
