 THE woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan.  Enoch Arden: &c - Page 159by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1865 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...Doctor, a knaws naw moor nor a floy; Git ma my yaale I tell tha, an' gin I mun doy I mun doy. TTTHONUS. THE woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapors weep their burden to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 264 pages
...perpetual youth. As Tennyson makes him say : — " The woods decay, the wixids decay :tnd fall. The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a slimmer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes : I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...Paradise. James Aldrich. CCXCVIII TITHONUS. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills...a summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality 5 Consumes : I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-haired shadow... | |
 | David Thomas - 1868 - 404 pages
...musical, most melancholy, of the laureate, "Tho woods decay, the woods decay and fell, The -vapours weep their burthen to the ground ; Man comes and tills...beneath ; And after many a summer dies the swan." Addison, in another essay than that already referred to, describes an afternoon he passed in Westminster... | |
 | William L. Robinson - 1868 - 208 pages
...I make men live, whether they will or no2? — 0 ! torture me no2 more, I will confess. — Sh. 120 field and lies beneath,... and after many a summer dies the swan. — Tennyson. Thy threats, thy mercy, I defy ! let rec'reant yield who fears to die. — Scott. The... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pages
...rules for Doctor, a knaws naw moor nor a floy; Git ma my yaiUe I tell tha, an" gin I mun doy I mun doy. TITHONUS. THE woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapors weep their burden to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pages
...walked in Paradise. James Aldrich. CCC TITHONUS. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills...a summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality 5 Consumes : I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-haired shadow... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1871 - 432 pages
...Tithonus was given the gift of immortality, but not of perpetual youth. As Tennyson makes him say : — " The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapors...burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and liel beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes : I wither... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 pages
...all that is most dear to him on earth. In the words, most musical, most melancholy, of the laureate, Man comes and tills the field, and lies beneath ; And after many a summer dies the swan." Addison, in another essay than that already referred to, describes an afternoon he passed in Westminster... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 pages
...all that is most dear to him on earth. In the words, most musical, most melancholy, of the laureate, Man comes and tills the field, and lies beneath ; And after many a summer dies the swan." Addison, in another essay than that already referred to, describes an afternoon he passed in Westminster... | |
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