 BREAK, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on...  Eighth Reader - Page 428by Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - 1918 - 488 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ocean lays - 1864 - 400 pages
...stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But, oh! for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break,...day that is dead Will never come back to me. ALFRED TENNYSOH. TO A WAVE. LIST ! thou child of wind and sea, Tell me of the far-off deep, Where the tempest's... | |
 | Literature - 1864 - 672 pages
...thee my steps shall be for ever and for ever."|j And again in the equally mournful, equally musical, " Break, break, break, at the foot of thy crags, O Sea...of a day that is dead will never come back to me." — Owen Meredith, too, has " A Farewell," like the laureate, of which the first stanza ends with Never... | |
 | John Brown - 1865 - 464 pages
...shouts with his sister at play ! 0 well for the sailor lad That he sings in his boat on the bay ! " And the stately ships go on To their haven under the...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me." Out of these few simple words, deep and melancholy, and sounding as the sea, as out of a well of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor-lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. THE POETS SONG. THE rain "had fallen, the Poet arose, He pass'd by the town and out of the street,... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 pages
...shouts with his sister at play !" O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. Tennyson. THE THREE SONS. I have a son, a little son, a boy just five years old, With eyes of thoughtful... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish' d hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break,...of a day that is dead, Will never come back to me. TENNYSOV. THE old house by the lindens Stood silent in the shade, And on the gravell'd pathway The... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1868 - 402 pages
...shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in bis boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. THE POET'S SONG. THE rain had fallen, the Poet arose, He pass'd by the town and out of the street,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 456 pages
...shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. THE POET'S SONG. THE rain had fallen, the Poet arose, He pass'd by the town and out of the street,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 658 pages
...stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish 'd hand. And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break break, break,...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. Yet it is not always so, for the speech of the sea is various, and wants not abundant resource of cheerfulness,... | |
 | Annie Lyndsay MacGregor - 1868 - 444 pages
...moments they were written in are worth years so spent." " 'The Charge of the Light Brigade,' and— " Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O sea!...of a day that is dead "Will never come back to me," Gertrude murmured to herself. "Who is not, in poetry's cause?" The genuine feeling in her eyes put... | |
| |
