 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...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 bay ! And the stately ships go on To... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1854 - 622 pages
...so with more modern and more cultured poets. Thus Tennyson: ' Break, break, break, On thy cold grey stones, 0 sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter...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 go on To... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 262 pages
...poem that always seems to me a part of In Memoriam. " Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea, And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 402 pages
...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 bis boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...and flushed, Its restless rays intolerably bright. — SOUTHEY. Break, break, break, On thy cold grey stones, 0 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 !... | |
 | William Henry Hamilton Rogers - 1869 - 238 pages
...passers below. Surely, we thought, here is the Laureate's happily conceived picture of a verity : — " 0 well for the fisherman's boy That he shouts with...well for the sailor lad That he sings in his boat in the bay." and as we looked at the merry lad, and then at the smiling sea, the inward prayer flashed... | |
 | 1869 - 162 pages
...thy cold grey stones, O sea ! And 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 j And well for the sailor lad That he sings in his boat on the bay. And the stately ships move on To... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1869 - 608 pages
...as it dashes its foam wildly on the stony beach, and sings " Break, break, break, On thy cold grey stones, 0 sea, And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me." Ah ! then he has watched it break thus tempestuously and wildly before... | |
 | Alexander Ronald Grant - 1870 - 252 pages
...the house of His glory see. BISHOP COXE. BREAK, BREAK, BREAK. BREAK, break, break, On thy cold grey stones, 0 Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter...fisherman's boy That he shouts with his sister at play 1 0 well for the sailor lad That he sings in his boat on the bay I And the stately ships go on To their... | |
 | 1870 - 492 pages
...cold grey stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. " О well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ; О well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay. " And the stately ships go on To... | |
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O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his 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... 
