 | 1848 - 744 sider
...the guests were reposing on broidered couches, a maiden was commanded to sing, and thus she sweetly sang : Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,...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 days that are no... | |
 | 1848 - 620 sider
...very beautiful to read, though scarcely fit for a harp accompaniment. It runs thus : — ' Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the henrt, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that... | |
 | East India college - 1845 - 620 sider
...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 lit not undevelopt man Hut diverse... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 sider
...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... | |
 | 1848 - 572 sider
...occurs at the close of the poem) : " ' Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from thi depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and...happy Autumn-fields, , And thinking of the days that arc no more. ', ' Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings oar friends up from the... | |
 | 1848 - 832 sider
...a house : Mm 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... | |
 | Lady Emily Ponsonby - 1848 - 350 sider
...harshly of you — I think of you as I have ever done. Oh, how am I to live without you !" CHAPTER XXI. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in...heart, and gather to -the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. TENNYSON. When Claude Hastings returned home... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 462 sider
...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 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 sider
...world his exquisite lines, but Cecil's feelings cannot be more accurately described : " Tears — idle tears — I know not what they mean ; Tears from the...Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes, In looking o'er the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. ***** " Dear as remembered... | |
 | Lewis Gaylord Clark - 1852 - 388 sider
...irresistible inward sadness : and as we walked, these lines of TENNYSON came to mind : ' TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...the heart and gather to the eyes, In looking on the fading autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more ! ' There are no two sadder words in... | |
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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. 
