O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee. "0 tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender... Tennyson's The Princess: A Medley - Page 47by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 138 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1891 - 586 pages
...specially to be the messenger of a yearning lover. How many a one has not sighed with Tennyson : " O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her,...eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee ! " On the other hand, but few minstrels have chanted in praise of the common sparrow. " Wherever this... | |
 | L. T. Meade - Aunts - 1891 - 314 pages
...The well-known and familiar song with which the Prince tried to woo Ida lost-little at her hands. " O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her,...eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee. " O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891 - 144 pages
...love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret ; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.' ' O SWALLOW, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her,...eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee. ' O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891 - 310 pages
...retrospect, But deals with the other distance and the huea Of promise; not a death's-head at the wine." Now while I sang, and maidenlike as far As I could ape their treble, did I sing. "O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And tell her,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...ifta 183 Then I remember'd one myself had made, What time I watch'd the swallow winging south From mine own land, part made long since, and part Now...maidenlike as far As I could ape their treble, did I sing. ' O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And tell her,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 pages
...1 82 I S3 Then I rememhcr'd one myself had made, What time I watch'd the swallow winging south From mine own land, part made long since, and part Now...maidenlike as far As I could ape their treble, did I sing. ' O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flymg South, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And tell her,... | |
 | William Watson - Poetry - 1892 - 276 pages
...slender form, She will not have him woo so warm, And yet will have him woo ! GEORGE DARI.EY. LXVIII O SWALLOW, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her,...eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee. O tell her, Swallow, that thou knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark... | |
 | Love poetry - 1893 - 262 pages
...years, There above the little grave, O there above the little grave, We kiss'd again with tears. " O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her,...eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee. " O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893 - 294 pages
...long since, and part Now while I sang, and maidenlike as far As I could ape their treble, did I sing. "O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to...eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee. "0 tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark... | |
 | English periodicals - 1893 - 684 pages
...disappearing from sight, and one among the passengers, a born musician, lifted up his voice and sang : Oh ! swallow, swallow, flying, flying south, Fly to her...eaves, And tell her, tell her what I tell to thee. Oh ! tell her brief is life, but love is long, And brief the sun of summer in the nonh. And brief the... | |
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