 A time to sicken and to swoon, When Science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but...  In Memoriam - Page 36by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 211 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arminianism - 1878 - 1002 pages
...less frequently felt, or at any rate proclaimed, by prose-writers, than by preachers and poets : ' I do but sing because I must And pipe but as the linnets sing ;' but there is no doubt that Harriet Martineau was impelled to write these tracts by a burning sense... | |
 | 1864 - 998 pages
...the thrush fills the woodland with its vesper music, so does the poet's sorrow seek vent in his song. I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. He takes refuge in his rhymes, not to parade his affliction, but to ease his heart. It is natural also... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...sorrow's barren SODS, When more and more the people throng The chairs and thrones of civil power? ' A time to sicken and to swoon, When science reaches...never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because 1 must. And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have... | |
 | Literature - 1921 - 864 pages
...it was; for every great poet may, and docs, truthfully echo in his heart the lines from In Memoriam: I do but sing because I must. And pipe but as the linnets sing. And just as singing was natural to Burns, to many it is natural to appreciate without being able to demonstrate.... | |
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...freedom must henceforth be inseparably united. The poet's sympathy with science is ardent in an age when science " reaches forth her arms to feel from world to world ;" and yet once or twice his spirit is vexed by doubts as to the possibility of reconciling scientific observations... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...sorrow's barren song, When more and more the people throng The chairs and thrones of civil power ? " A time to sicken and to swoon, When science reaches...because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed, Because... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 550 pages
...sorrow's barren song, When more and more the people throng The chairs and thrones of civil power ? ' A time to sicken and to swoon, When science reaches...because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed. Because... | |
 | 1850 - 1050 pages
...people throng The chairs and thrones of civil power ? " A time to sicken and to swoon, When conscience reaches forth her arms, To feel from world to world,...because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : "And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note has changed,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 602 pages
...sorrow's barren song, When more and more the people throng The chairs and thrones of civil power? ' A time to sicken and to swoon, When science reaches...never knew the sacred dust: I do but sing because 1 must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note ยก- gay, For now her little ones have... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...sorrow's barren song, When more and more the people throng The chairs and thrones of civil power ? A time to sicken and to swoon, When science reaches...because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed, Because... | |
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