 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1854 - 340 pages
...dresses and accessories. The song came in well as an introduction : Tears— Idle tears — I known not what they mean — Tears from the depth of some divine despair— Else in the heart, and gather to the ey0, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 326 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...glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the undenvorld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So... | |
 | 1855 - 744 pages
...we look on the boundless plain of the ocean. So obvious as to be used by way of illustration — " Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the under world; Sad as the last that reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge." If... | |
 | Mary Henderson Eastman - 1856 - 406 pages
...these beautiful words." She played part of the air as a prelude, and then sang: — <; 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...longMss my whole soul through y lips, as simlight drinketh dew. The Princess. Canto iv. 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. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And... | |
 | Miss E. Hedge - 1856 - 164 pages
...bloom. FROM "THE PRINCESS." TEAKS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, — Tears from the depths 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. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail... | |
 | 1857 - 904 pages
...city above. May the Lord grant it. TKARS, idle tears T know not what they mean, Tears fiom the depths of some divine despair Rise in the heart and gather...autumn-fields And thinking of the days that are no more. — TENNYSON. •SERVANT PLAGUE." BT J08KPII08. SUCH is the heading of an article in " Hall's Journal... | |
 | 1857 - 494 pages
...the other in the poem called the " Fountain." Tennyson's exquisite poem is well known : " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean ; Tears from the...Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking ou the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 492 pages
...the other in the poem called the " Fountain." Tennyson's exquisite poem is well known : " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean ; Tears from the depth of somo divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 332 pages
...the earth, 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...Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. 244 Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad... | |
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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. 
