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Tears, Idle Tears

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.

Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more!


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  Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson
  1. All Things Will Die
  2. A Farewell
  3. Break Break Break
  4. Come Into The Garden Maud
  5. Crossing The Bar
  6. Demeter And Persephone
  7. Fatima
  8. Tears Idle Tears
  9. The Charge Of The Light Briga
  10. The Lady Of Shalott
  11. The Mermaid
  12. The Merman
  13. The Oak
  14. Ulysses
 
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