 ... Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.  The World's Best Poetry ... - Page 1431904Full view - About this book
 | 1871 - 314 pages
...earliest pipe of half-awakened birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly glows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days...regret, O Death in Life, the days that are no more. SONG TO THE SWALLOW. O SWALLOW, Swallow, flying South, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 564 pages
...no more. . . . Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign 'd On lips that are for others ; deep as love, Deep as...all regret ; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.'3 This is an exquisite and strange voluptuousness, a reverie full of delight, and full, too,... | |
 | James Grant - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1872 - 348 pages
...and the wild confusion and suffering of the time, stole over me. Waking, these memories became ' Sad as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those...regret, O death in life — the days that are no more !' From all this, I was thoroughly roused by a voice crying, 'Up, up, wounded — all you who are able!... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 306 pages
...are no more. " Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others ; deep as love, Deep as...regret ; O Death in Life, the days that are no more." She ended with such passion that the tear, She sang of, shook and fell, an erring pearl Lost in her... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 304 pages
...days that are no more. "Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement...sad, so strange, the days that are no more. " Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 186 pages
...days that are no more. Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement...sad, so strange, the days that are no more. Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 532 pages
...that are no more. " Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds' To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement...feigned On lips that are for others ; deep as love, Ehep as first love, and wild with all regret ; O Death in Life, the days that are no more." She ended... | |
 | Living voices - English poetry - 1873 - 588 pages
...days that are no more. Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawn's The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement...after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others ; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret ;... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Prineess. Canto iv. Unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square. Ibid. Canto iv. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as...regret ; O Death in Life ! the days that are no more. Ibid. Canto iv. Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1874 - 568 pages
...no more. . . . Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others ; deep as love, Deep as...regret ; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.'* This is an exquisite and strange voluptuousness, a reverie full of delight, and full, too, of anguish,... | |
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