 The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence...  In Memoriam - Page 32by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 126 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 512 pages
...channel in the centre, through which are carried the scanty waters of the Ithuna. There twice a-day the Severn fills, The salt sea-water passes by, And...the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. I have, once or twice, when fishing at this season, slept among the sand-hills on the north bank, and... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...tomb : — 476 CHANGE OF LIFE-SCENE. " The Danube to the Severn gave The darkened heart that beats no more ; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the ware. There twice a day the Severn fills ; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 pages
...it cannot find, The words that are not heard again. xrx. THE Danube to the Severn gave The darkened heart that beat no more ; They laid him by the pleasant...Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. The Wye is hushed nor moved along ; And hushed my deepest grief of all, When, filled with tears that cannot fall,... | |
 | 1863 - 972 pages
...spirit from its dwelling-place, and then — " The i »nimbe to the Severn give The darkened lic.-irt that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the nave." He was buried in the chancel of Cleveden Church, on alone hill that overhangs the Bristol Channel,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863 - 666 pages
...poet wrote in tnemoriam, — when the Danube to the Severn gave the darkened heart that beat no more : There twice a day the Severn fills ; - . The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the bubbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. || And in the same pathetic strains it is that we hear... | |
 | 1863 - 648 pages
...at. 68. t The Sea-Spell. % The Palace of Art. § Maud, III. || Ibid, XIV. 4. IT Ibid., XVIII. 8. " There twice a day the Severn fills ; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the bubbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills," * And in the same pathetic strains it is that we hear... | |
 | 480 pages
...churchyard, on a lone hill overlooking the Bristol Channel, which the poet thus describes : — ***•<< They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing...the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills." Deaths and births tread close upon the heels of each other. At the last moment before going to press,... | |
 | 1864 - 354 pages
...find the churchyard itself mentioned : — " There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye,» And makes a silence in the hills." What with Coleridge, and what with Tennyson's associations with Clevedon, the little watering-place... | |
 | John Brown - 1865 - 464 pages
...in the places of his youth." And again in xix. : — u The Danube to the Severn gave The darken' d heart that beat no more^ They laid him by the pleasant...the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills." Here, too, it is, LXVI. : — " When on my bed the moonlight falls, I know that in thy place of rest,... | |
 | Nona Maria Stevenson BELLAIRS - 1865 - 154 pages
...rise." I may not venture to describe Arthur Hallam's resting-place. We read in " In Memoriam : " — " The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that...the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave." As Ceterach is in my mind the embodiment of all that is pure and enduring in friendship, so Botrychium... | |
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