 There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;' The larkspur listens, 'I hear,...  Favorite Poems - Page 16by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 96 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Marlborough coll - 1855 - 126 pages
...application of the language of flowers than " There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion flower at the gate, She is coming, my dove, my dear, She...is late," The larkspur listens, " I hear, I hear," The canto in which this occurs is indeed a delightful oasis in the midst of strange deserts of poetical... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pages
...sunning over with curls. To the flowers, and be their sun. There has t Allen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove,...near And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;' The la'kspur listens, ' 1 hear 1 heur,1 And the lily whispers, * 1 wait.' She is coming, my own, my sweet... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 688 pages
...Maud ' he writes : — There hag fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She i< coming, my dove, my dear ; She is coming, my life, my fate. Rosaline, in ' Love's Labour 's Lost,' says, Act V. sc. ii. : — That aarae Biron I '11 torture ere... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove,...near, she is near ;* And the white rose weeps, 'She la late ;* The larkspur listens, ' I bear, I hear ;' And the lily whispers, ' I wait.' She is coming,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 504 pages
...for Maud, is the subject. Allow the tenth stanza : — " There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove,...hear, I hear ' ; And the lily whispers, ' I wait.' " Sections xxn., xxm., and xxiv. evidently serve as a preface to the madness so strikingly and thrillingly... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 176 pages
...sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. 10. There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove,...hear, I hear ;' And the lily whispers, * I wait.* 11. My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed ; My dust would hear her and beat,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 1855 - 180 pages
...sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. 10. There has fallen a splendid tear Prom the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove,...hear, I hear ;' And the lily whispers, ' I wait.' 1L My heart would tear her and beat, Were it earth in. an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat,... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 1416 pages
...sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove,...rose cries, * She is near, she Is near ;* And the wblte rose weeps, ' She Is late ;' The larkspur listens, ' 1 hear, I hear ;' And the lily whispers,... | |
 | England - 1855 - 812 pages
...and bo their sun. 318 319 There hae fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate, She U coming, my dove, my dear; She Is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, • She is near, she !e near ;' And the white rose weeps, • She is late;' The larkspur listens, ' I hear, I hear;* And... | |
 | 1855 - 1428 pages
...MICH near, Mieisnear; And the white rose weeps, 'SlieUlate ; ic larkspur listens, * I hear, I bear ;' And the lily whispers, * I wait.' She is coming, my own, my sweet ; Were it ever -so airy n tread, My h^art would hear her and beat, \\Vre it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her... | |
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