 Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. 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 Western Educational Review - Page 1431871Full view - About this book
 | 1859 - 136 pages
...like the sensation felt in looking at the sea, and susceptible only of the same kind of embodiment. ' Break, break, break On thy cold grey stones, O Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.' The natural way of giving vent to a feeling of interest in a bygone time,... | |
 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...naked soul may suddenly see,. Dreadful, past thought or doubt. BREAK, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That... | |
 | Peter Bayne - Authors, English - 1860 - 432 pages
...the following; and the expression is not absurd. " Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That... | |
 | John Brown - Medicine - 1861 - 548 pages
...godliness, rose into his " study of imagination " — " into the eye and prospect of his soul."1 " Break, break, break, On thy cold grey stones, O sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. 1 The passage from Shakspere prefixed to this paper, contains probably as... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...And round again to happy night. BREAK, BREAK, BREAK. BREAK, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, And... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...And round again to happy night. BREAK, BREAK, BREAK. BREAK, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That... | |
 | Walter White - England - 1861 - 284 pages
...the rushing wave about to overwhelm the whole margin of sand. " Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me." The stars were beginning to twinkle : I had, therefore, again to leave... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 506 pages
...Shakspere prefixed to this paper, contains probably as much as can be said of the mental, not less 419 ' Break, break, break, On thy cold grey stones, O sea...tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. ' O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad That... | |
 | John Brown - Art - 1862 - 360 pages
...less than the affectionate conditions, under which such a record as In Memoriam is produced, and ** Break, break, break, On thy cold grey stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me* may give us more insight into the imaginative faculty's mode of working,... | |
 | 1862 - 1006 pages
...were at least casual indications what depths had been stirred. ' Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. ' O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That... | |
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