| 1850 - 806 pages
...loss, hovering tenderness over the final rites, — the transport from a foreign shore to where, ' from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land.' Then, come yearnings toward the fair time, idealized amid the irrevocable past, the youthful time when... | |
| 1864 - 998 pages
...clover sod that takes the sunshine and the rains than in the sailor's vast and wandering grave,— And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. The world is calm, and the poet is comforted; the winds begin to rise, whirling away the last red leaf,... | |
| Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...into the lonely sea. " 'Tis well, 'tis something, we may stand, Where he in English earth is laid, And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. " 'Tis little ; but it looks in truth, As if the quiet bones were blest Among familiar names to rest... | |
| Literature - 1917 - 882 pages
...where he "knew each field, each flower, each stick." As Tennyson liked to think of his lost companions as at least laid in English earth, beneath the clover...the sunshine and the rain, And from his ashes may he made The violet of his native land; so with Matthew Arnold and the Scholar Gipsy. "Thou from the... | |
| Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1915 - 666 pages
...beautiful past.' " " ' 'Tls well : 'tis something. We mav stand Where he in kindly earth is laid:' And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. " ' 'Tls little ; but lt looks in truth As if the quiet bones were blest, Among familiar names to rest.... | |
| 1868
...away amongst strangers. "'Tis well ; 'tis something ; we may stand Where he in English earth is laid, And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. 'Tis little ; but it looks in truth As if the quiet bones were blest, 226 THE CHTTHCH. [SEPTEMBER 1... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...race be run. / XVIII. 'T is well, 't is something, we may stand Where he in English earth is laid, And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. • 'T is little ; but it looks in truth As if the quiet bones were blest Among familiar names to rest... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...widow 'd race be run. 29 'Tis well, 'tis something, we may stand Where he in English earth is laid, And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. 'Tis little ; hut it looks in truth As if the quiet bones were blest Among familiar names to rest Aud... | |
| 1851 - 622 pages
...xviii. of " In Memoriam." " "Tis well, 'tis something, we may stand Where he in English earth is laid, And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. " 'Tis little ; but it looks in truth As if the quiet bones were blest Among familiar names to rest,... | |
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