 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 462 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 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 300 pages
...lightlier move The 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...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 290 pages
...lightlier move The 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...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... | |
 | Catherine Anne Hubback - 1851 - 926 pages
...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 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 the days that are... | |
 | Lewis Gaylord Clark - Wit and humor - 1852 - 388 pages
...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 of some divine despair, Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes, In looking on the fading autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no... | |
 | Lewis Gaylord Clark - Wit and humor - 1852 - 350 pages
...irresistible inward sadness : and as we walked, these lines of TENNYSON came to mind : ' TEAKS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair, Eise in the heart and gather to the eyes, In looking on the fading autumn fields, And thinking of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...lightlier move The 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,...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... | |
 | Mrs. J. Thayer - Gift books - 1853 - 144 pages
...BEEMKK. HOT very desolate that breast must be Whose only joyance is in memory. IEL The Past. 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 on the days that are no... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - American literature - 1853 - 522 pages
...tha 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 Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no... | |
 | John Sullivan Dwight - Music - 1853 - 424 pages
...— Robert Schumann's Musical Life-Maxims. MEMORIES. FROM TENKTSOM'8 " PRINCESS." Tears, idle leurs, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Kise in the heart and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the... | |
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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. Fresh as the first beam glittering on... 
