 Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than...  The Century - Page 7831913Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...last, you fix'da vacant stare, And slew him with your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...last, you fixed a vacant stare, And slew him with your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent, The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'T is only noble to be good ; Kind... | |
 | American literature - 1847 - 440 pages
...generations, will be outweighed by the humblest life of charity to man. Believe the poet when he says : " From yon blue heavens, above us bent, The gardener, Adam, and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Not stars and titles make a lord ; He's only noble who is good... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...your You changed a wholesome irall ! You held vour nnlirmi withmi Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to ine, 'Tis only noble to be good ; Kind... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...last, you fixed a vacant stare, And slew him with your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent, The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'T is only noble to be good ; Kind... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...last, you fixed a vacant stare, And slew him with your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent, The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, T is only noble to be good ; Kind... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...last, you fixed a vacant stare, And slew him with your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent, The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'T is only noble to be good ; Kind... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1028 pages
...who refuses to become a lover says to the lady of high degree : Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. In later editions this was altered to " The grand old gardener... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1872 - 402 pages
...last, you fix'da vacant stare, And slew him with your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...last, you fixed a vacant stare, And slew him with your noble birth. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam, and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind... | |
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