 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 the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...  Anniversary Addresses - Page 157by Samuel Colcord Bartlett - 1894 - 517 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...under the hill ; But, O, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea,...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN — Burn*. WHEN chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare, One... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 pages
...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, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. COOKE. FLORENCE VANE. I LOVED thee long and dearly, Florence Vane ; My life's bright dream, and early... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1858 - 424 pages
...haven under the hill; But oh for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break At the foot of thy crags, O sea...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me." If local association can thus quicken the pangs of sorrow, there is also a ministry of nature soothing... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1858 - 720 pages
...hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, oh Sea 1 But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. The variety of Mr. Tennyson's measures, resulting from the skilful modulation of harmonious words and cadences... | |
 | Harriet Parr - 1859 - 350 pages
...coming ; " and ere it fell the light was cornel 131 CHAPTER THE FOURTH. THE DAYS OF MOUKNING. " BBEAK, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O sea, But...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me." TENNYSON. I. THEY buried Lilian one showery February afternoon in the pretty little churchyard where... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1859 - 216 pages
...vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is 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." Such, too frequently, are the memories connected with the watering-places — as often the scene of... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1859 - 660 pages
...vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is 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." Such, too frequently, are the memories connected with the watering-places — as often the scene of... | |
 | Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitt Southworth - 1859 - 498 pages
...FLED. CHAPTER XXII. LADY ADELAIDE'S WOE. Break — break — break — On thy cold, grey sands, oh, sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me ! TENNYSON. ADELAIDE, almost heart-broken by her first bitter sorrow, recovered very slowly from the... | |
 | William Allingham - 1860 - 316 pages
...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, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea,...of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. TENNYSON. SONNET. [ABSENCE.] FROM you I have been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dress'... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 pages
...vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, oh Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me." The two pieces preceding the last are from The Princess. So is the next. The heroine of that poem is represented... | |
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