 | Samuel Richardson - 1869 - 516 pages
...read it, Mr. d'Auvergne." She pointed to these four lines, and her finger traced them for him : — " And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But oh for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! " In a stately way she... | |
 | College students' writings, Irish (English) - 1869 - 162 pages
...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 their haven under the hill ; But oh for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a... | |
 | Great Britain - 1869 - 974 pages
...colfl gray stones, 0 Sea ! And I would timt my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. " Aid the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But О for the touch of a vanieh'd hand, Aud the sound of a voice that is still! " Break, break, break,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1870 - 492 pages
...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 their haven under the hill ; But oh for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! "Break, break, break,... | |
 | Alexander Ronald Grant - 1870 - 252 pages
...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 haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...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 their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still I Break, break, break, At... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...0 well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! 0 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 vanished hand, And thc sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At... | |
 | W. W. Robson, William Wallace Robson - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 288 pages
...to admit that something in us answers directly to the timeless poignancy of 'Break, break, break': And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand. And the sound of a voice that is still! The twentieth century has... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...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 their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...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 their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At... | |
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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 ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come... 
