...air is damp, and hush'd, and close, As a sick man's room when he taketh repose An hour before death; My very heart faints and my whole soul grieves At...the earth so chilly ; Heavily hangs the hollyhock, A CHARACTER. \ 1TITH a half-glance upon the sky VV At night he said, "The wanderings Of this most intricate...

...air is damp, and hush'd, and close, As a sick man's room when he taketh repose An hour before death ; My very heart faints and my whole soul grieves At...hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. («8S3) XXV ADELINE i MYSTERY of mysteries, Faintly smiling Adeline, Scarce of earth nor all divine,...

...mood of loss and regret, and details of natural observation employed to suggest sad-sweet emotion : Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i'...hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. Tennyson's objective is always to render a mood rather than to explore it. Consider, for example, the...

...elements. Here, for example, are the last lines of the song "A spirit haunts the year's last hours": My very heart faints and my whole soul grieves At...hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. The poem recalls Keats's "To Autumn." Everyone would claim that the Keats is far superior to the Tennyson,...

...hour before death," he told her, feeling the room become a closing coffin buried in a forest cemetery. "My very heart faints and my whole soul grieves at...fading edges of box beneath, and the year's last rose." "I'm sorry," she said. "You couldn't be inventing thai. I guess you're as worried as I am, in your...

...Shakespeare did not worry about the incongruity of punning when talking of death, so why should Tennyson? My very heart faints, and my whole soul grieves At...breath Of the fading edges of box beneath, And the last year's rose. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON He goes on. That moist rich smell of those rotting leaves....

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...hush'd, and close, As a sick man's room when he taketh repose An hour before death; My very In-art faints and my whole soul grieves At the moist rich...year's last rose. Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Adeline i Mystery of mysteries, Faintly smiling Adeline, Scarce of earth nor all divine, Nor unhappy,...

...air is damp, and hush'd, and close, As a sick man's room when he taketh repose An hour before death; My very heart faints and my whole soul grieves At...fading edges of box beneath, And the year's last rose. 20 Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly; Heavily hangs the hollyhock....

...lake-blossom fell into the lake As the pimpernel dozed on the lea. During "the year's last hours," Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i'...hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. But the yucca "which no winter quells" blooms on, and so does "the year's last rose." The garden had...