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
| Acrostics - 1866 - 280 pages
...sorrows of immortal eyes, Spoke slowly in her place." 1. " The Danube to the Severn gave The darkened heart that beat no more ; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave." 2. " She seemed a part of joyous spring ; A gown of grass-green silk she wore Buckled with golden clasps... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1868 - 802 pages
...creations of mammal being, yet how did the river acquire to many of us a new life when we read — The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more, (In Mcmoriam, xii.) when we learnt that Tennyson's friend lay on Severn's bank, and that there from... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 pages
...forms the firmer mind, Treasuring the look it cannot find, The words that are not heard again. XIX. THE Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that...moved along, And hush'd my deepest grief of all, When fiird with tears that cannot fall, I brim with sorrow drowning song. The tide flows down, the wave... | |
| Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 262 pages
...see in what mood the poet comes to this happy stream. " The Danube to the Severn gave The darkened heart that beat no more ; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave." His friend has died suddenly in Vienna, and his body is being brought across the sea to be buried in... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1868 - 550 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 hashes half the babbling... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pages
...forms the firmer mind, Treasuring the look it cannot find, The words that are not heard again. XIX. THE Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that...hills. The Wye is hush'd nor moved along, And hush'd ray deepest grief of all, When fill'd with tears that cannot fall, I brim with sorrow drowning song.... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1869 - 572 pages
...scenery round that lonely tomb : — " The Danube to the Severn gave The darkened heart that beats no more ; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And...sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, Anil makes a silence in the hills." Tennyson's early life amid the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridge... | |
| 1869 - 974 pages
...truth, As if the quiet bones were blest, Among familiar names to rest, And in the plaees of his youth. " There twice a day the Severn fills, The salt sea-water...the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills." -" O to us The fools of habit, sweeter seems " To rest beneath the clover sod, That takes the sunshine... | |
| 1869 - 974 pages
...truth, As if the quiet bones were blest, Among familiar names to rest, And in the plates of his youth. " There twice a day the Severn fills, The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And make* a silence in the hills." -" О to us The fools of habit, sweeter seems " To rest beneath the... | |
| William Hughes - 1870 - 28 pages
...passage of " In Memoriam " where the mourner tells how — " The Danube to the Severn gave The darkened heart that beat no more ; They laid him by the pleasant...the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills." Does not the reader of these exquisite verses require to summon before his mental vision the picture... | |
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