 A time to sicken and to swoon, When Science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle thing: Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as...  In Memoriam - 36 psl.autoriai: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 211 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 1878 - 1002 psl.
...less frequently felt, or at any rate proclaimed, by prose-writers, than by preachers and poets : ' I do but sing because I must And pipe but as the linnets sing ;' but there is no doubt that Harriet Martineau was impelled to write these tracts by a burning sense... | |
 | 1864 - 998 psl.
...the thrush fills the woodland with its vesper music, so does the poet's sorrow seek vent in his song. I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. He takes refuge in his rhymes, not to parade his affliction, but to ease his heart. It is natural also... | |
 | 1850 - 602 psl.
...and to swoon, When science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ?' Behold, ye speak an idle thing...never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because 1 must. And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have... | |
 | 1921 - 864 psl.
...it was; for every great poet may, and docs, truthfully echo in his heart the lines from In Memoriam: I do but sing because I must. And pipe but as the linnets sing. And just as singing was natural to Burns, to many it is natural to appreciate without being able to demonstrate.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 psl.
...and to swoon, When science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle...because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed, Because... | |
 | 1850 - 1050 psl.
...to swoon, When conscience reaches forth her arms, To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ?' — " Behold, ye speak an...because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : "And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note has changed,... | |
 | 1850 - 550 psl.
...and to swoon, When science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ?' Behold, ye speak an idle thing:...because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed. Because... | |
 | 1850 - 602 psl.
...and to swoon, When science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ?' • Behold, ye speak an idle...never knew the sacred dust: I do but sing because 1 must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note ¡- gay, For now her little ones have... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 psl.
...and to swoon, When science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle...because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed, Because... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 psl.
...of regular education, they bear witness to an inborn faculty for song. She could say, with Tennyson, I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. She was never at school, and the only things in which she was ever regularly trained were French, English... | |
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