 And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep. Why are we weigh'd upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress. While all things else have rest from...  The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 2211845Full view - About this book
 | England - 1849 - 792 pages
...poppy hangs in sleep. II. " Why are we weighed upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness?...brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor hearken what the iuner spirit sings, — 4 There is no joy but calm ! ' Why should we only toil, the roof and crown... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...the poppy hangs in sleep. 2. Why axe we weigh'd upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness...; Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor harken what the inner spirit sings, " There is no joy but calm ! " Why should we only toil, the roof... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...the poppy hangs in sleep. 2. Why are we weigh'd upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness...wanderings Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor harken what the inner spirit sings, " There is no joy but calm ! " Why should we only toil, the roof... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...poppy hangs in sleep. n. " Why are we weighed upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness...brows in slumber's holy balm; Nor hearken what the inner spirit sings, — ' There is no joy but calm !' Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...the poppy hangs in sleep. 2. Why are we weigh 'd upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness?...wanderings Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor harten what the inner spirit sings, " There is no joy but calm ! " Why should we only toil, the roof... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 252 pages
...ledge the poppy hangs in sleep. Why are we weighed upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness...brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor hearken what the inner spirit sings, " There is no joy but calm ! " Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 260 pages
...the poppy hangs in sleep. s. Why are we weigh 'd upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness...perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : VOL. i. N Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 864 pages
...poppy hangs in sleep. II. " Why are we weighed upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness?...brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor hearken what the inner spirit sings, — * There is no joy but calm ! " Why should we only toil, the roof and crown... | |
 | Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 320 pages
...the poppy hangs in sleep. n. Why are we weighed upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness...brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor hearken what the inner spirit sings, — ' There is no joy but calm !' • Why should we only toil, the roof and crown... | |
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