 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.  Autumn Hours and Fireside Reading - Page 160by Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1854 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1848 - 744 pages
...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 depth of some divine despair, Rise in the heart, aud gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields And thinking of the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the Christ that is to be. -. . **A= [From The Princes!.] TEARS, IDLE TEARS. TEAKS, 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... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pages
...kill Is to give them — No surrender ! DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE. BY TENNYBON. 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... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 pages
...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 of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn fields, And thinking of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1848 - 186 pages
...music :', and a maid, Of those beside her, smote her harp, and sang : i " 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...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 some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the... | |
 | Truth-seeker and present age - 1849 - 540 pages
...lightlicr move.' The following exquisite melody is sung by one of her maids : ' 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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 462 pages
...earthy. What I am about to read is from his last long poem, "The Princess:" Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Riso in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the... | |
 | Catherine Anne Hubback - 1851 - 926 pages
...lines, but Cecil's feelings cannot be more accurately described : " 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 o'er the happy autumn fields, And thinking of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 pages
...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 of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the... | |
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