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
 | 1894 - 764 pages
...her list would have received the prize. S1x QUOTATIONS ON THE SWALLOW. The three most poetical. I. ' O swallow, swallow, flying, flying south, Fly to her,...eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee. • *••*** O swallow, flying from the golden woods, Fly to her, and pipe and woo her, and make... | |
 | Kenyon West - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 614 pages
...love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret ; O Death in Life, the days that are no more. V. 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 dark... | |
 | Kenyon West - Poets laureate - 1895 - 588 pages
...love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret ; O Death in Life, the days that are no more. V. 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 dark... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1896 - 210 pages
...wine." Then I remember'd one myself had made, 70 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. 56. Great year. A poetical phrase equivalent to age ; here the age of democracy. 58. Golden, the best... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1896 - 206 pages
...wine." Then I remember'd one myself had made, 70 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. 56. Great year. A poetical phrase equivalent to age ; here the age of democracy. 58. Golden, the best... | |
 | English poetry - 1896 - 532 pages
...So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me. djo O SWALLOW, SWALLOW 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 dark... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1896 - 206 pages
...a wooden image of a mummy brought in and carried about as a reminder of death. 71. Cf. III., 194. " 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 - English poetry - 1897 - 178 pages
...as far As I could ape their treble, did I sing. " 0 Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, 75 Ply to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell thee. "O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,... | |
 | Elisabeth Luther Cary - England - 1898 - 412 pages
...Sometimes the insistence on the liquid note is too monotonous, as where the Prince sings, "maidenlike," " O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her...eaves And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee"; but for the most part it is used with infinite skill and ' charm to the end not merely of The Princess... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - British literature - 1898 - 916 pages
...wine ? ' Then I remember'd one myself had made, 70 What time I watch'd the swallow winging south From as thought we two Might make one flesh, and cleave...As man and wife ? /'••''<•. Ah, cousin, I rem 1 sing. ' O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying south, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And... | |
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