 Tears, 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.  St. Martin's Summer - Page 216by Anne Maria Hampton Brewster - 1866 - 442 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Miss E. Hedge - 1856 - 164 pages
...her joys beyond her asking, And her young soul gladdened into 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... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pages
...call her dead. We call her dead, but ah ! we know She dwells where living waters flow. TEARS, 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... | |
 | 1867 - 878 pages
...scene in dismay. To be continued. ' TEAES, IDLE TEAES : " A COMMENTAEY. BY GEORGE GROVE. "Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair Eisc in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 pages
...imagery. The pathos here too is deep, but it is the majesty not the prostration of grief. " Tears, 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... | |
 | 1861 - 858 pages
...he has never since equalled. We allude, more particularly, to the lines commencing— " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair," &o., lines which, in our estimation, stand unequalled for imaginative vigour, and a pathos " too deep... | |
 | Mrs. Florence Williamson, William Kirkus - 1864 - 412 pages
...was the plantation of firs so dreary ? It was autumn, winter — surely nothing more. " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair, Bise in the heart and gather to the eyes In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the... | |
 | Anne Maria Hampton Brewster - 1866 - 456 pages
...earth, then night's solemn inky pall obliterates them in an instant." " A shivering delight, — t Divine despair/ " I said, not in answer, but half...his clarion-like voice the whole of that etherial lyrM of Tennyson, which, I know not why, had suddenly presented itself to my memory. I suppose because... | |
 | Mary Baskin - 1878 - 332 pages
...thing." I sat silent after this, thinking of Tennyson's exquisite, mournful, lines : — " Tears, 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... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...down, I could drive the boat with my sighs. f. Two Gerdleinen of \\-nma. Act II. So. 3. Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair. ij. TESSÏSOS — The Princess. Canto IV. Line 22. The big round tears run down his dappled face, H>>... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1882 - 430 pages
...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 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... | |
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