 stanza : — 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.  A Study of Versification - Page 181by Brander Matthews - 1911 - 275 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Early English newspapers - 1848 - 820 pages
...reposing on broidered couches, a maiden was commanded to sing, and thus she sweetly sang: Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears, from the...autumn-fields And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our Mends up from the underworld, Sad as... | |
 | East India college - 1845 - 620 pages
...whole, but when far distant from our native land, we may some day find how true the song is,—how " Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eye. When thinking of the days that are no more." " For woman is not undevelopt man But diverse : could... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 pages
...house . Men hated learned women." Thus too, when one of them sings, the song is sad: " 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1848 - 186 pages
...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...Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. " Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1848 - 1848 - 180 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...Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. " Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1848 - 180 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...Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. " Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...cares to kill Is to give them—No surrender ! DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE. BY TENNYSON. Tears, idle tears, 1 know not what they mean ; Tears from the depth of...Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as... | |
 | 1848 - 832 pages
...house : Men hated learned women." Thus too, when one of them sings, the song is sad : " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In lookin? on the happy Autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. " Fresh as the first... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 572 pages
...close of the poem) : " ' Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Teart from tht depth of tome divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the...happy Autumn-fields, , And thinking of the days that arc no more. " ' Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 290 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...Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. " Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad... | |
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