| Atlanta (Ga.) - 1868 - 418 pages
...even murmuring them aloud. Perhaps my meaning may be made plainer by quoting a few such instances: '' And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But oh, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still I "Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, oh sea 1 But... | |
| Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 1868 - 262 pages
...thoughts that arise in me. " 0 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 .< , To their haven under the hill ; But 0 for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1868 - 402 pages
...fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in bis boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their 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... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 348 pages
...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 bay ! TENNYSON. Bocks of my country ! let the cloud Your crested heights array, And rise ye like a fortress... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 1258 pages
...profitable for the body, profitable for the mind. The poet's words are sometimes on its awful lips : — And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vauish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At... | |
| Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...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...stately ships go on To their 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... | |
| American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...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...stately ships go on To their 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... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1995 - 244 pages
...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...stately ships go on To their 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... | |
| John Foster, Gordon Dennis - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1995 - 136 pages
...thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy 5 That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat...stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; m But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break,... | |
| Stephen Adams - Poetry - 1997 - 260 pages
...stanzas reveal tüe real matrix of the stanza in the short meter accentual form of the ballad quatrain: And the stately ships go on To their haven 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... | |
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