 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
 | Children's stories, American - 1868 - 452 pages
...inexpressibly sad and plaintive. A little below this picture hangs a little gem, finished and framed. " Break, break, break, at the foot of thy crags, O sea...of a day that is dead will never come back to me," you involuntarily murmur to yourself. The very atmosphere is sad; and you can almost hear the mourn... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1854 - 622 pages
...haven under the hill; But 0 for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still 1 Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O sea!...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. This is not a case in which the same feeling, to the same intensity of pitch, could have been expressed... | |
 | College students' writings, Irish (English) - 1869 - 162 pages
...sings in his boat on the bay. And the stately ships move on To their haven under the hill ; But oh for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. TENNYSON. JERE PERENNIUS. Mundi delicias dolore flebant Abreptum tacito Catullum amici; Et carmen vapidum... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - Christian life - 1869 - 268 pages
...which is needed for the present following of JESUS : — " Oh for the touch of a vauish'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." "A day that is dead;" — all days, when they have done their work, die of themselves. But shall we... | |
 | 1869 - 974 pages
...stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the towh of a vaniih'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." Another friend states : — " I have met with no man his superior in metaphysical subtlety; no man... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1869 - 608 pages
...has at length calmly looked at the dread fact of the case, as we learn from the closing stanza, — " Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O sea,...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me." The rush of agitating emotion has spent itself, it is succeeded by the settled conviction that the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...' " Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stoues, 0 Sea !" THE BEGGAR MAID.— THE POET'S SONG. 81 And the stately ships go on To their haven under the...the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never coine back to me. THE BEGGAR MAID. HEE arms across her breast she laid ; She was more fair than words... | |
 | Alexander Ronald Grant - 1870 - 252 pages
...he shouts with his sister at play 1 0 well for the sailor lad That he sings in his boat on the bay I And the stately ships go on To their haven under the...still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, 0 Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. TENNYSON. ON THE MARRIAGE... | |
 | Great Britain - 1870 - 492 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,...crags, O sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Can never come back to me." 2. Some of our greatest poets have not hesitated to employ "apt... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - Christian life - 1870 - 268 pages
...sentiment, wasting thereby the mental energy which is needed for the present following of JESUS : — " Oh for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of...still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, 0 Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me." "A day that is dead;"... | |
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