 | Frederick Henry Sykes - English language - 1905 - 352 pages
...(iambic tetrameter) are the first and fourth and the second and third (abba) : — Old yew that graspcst at the stones That name the underlying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapped about the banes. (iii) The riming lines are the first and second and third and fourth (aabb)... | |
 | John Marshall, Orlando John Stevenson - American poetry - 1904 - 296 pages
...principle in nature which mocks man's sorrows and sufferings : Old yew that graspest at the atones That name the underlying dead ; Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapped about the bones. Here also the difficulty presents itself that if any such hopeful view was... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...long result of love, and boast : " Behold the man that loved and lost, But all he was is overworn." ii OLD Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the...dreamless head ; Thy roots are wrapt about the bones. • The seasons bring the flower again, And bring the firstling to the flock ; And in the dusk of thee,... | |
 | 1895 - 1102 pages
...or kindred sounds, is very visible when we look for it in a beautiful cadence. Take Tennyson's — Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the...dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones. ' stones.' Three lines, and five words in all, begin with the soft ' th' : ' Name ' is echoed by '... | |
 | English periodicals - 1895 - 1140 pages
...it in a beautiful cadence. Take Tennyson's — Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name thy under-lying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones. 568 Oct. ' stones.' Three lines, and five words in all, begin with the soft ' th' : ' Name ' is echoed... | |
 | Elaine Jordan - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 212 pages
...embraced or crushed before it enters the mind, and clasping or grasping is the whole motive force of II: Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the...dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones. The branches like stiff fingers grasping the headstone evoke as in a mirror reflection the roots beneath... | |
 | Reginald Gibbons - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 320 pages
...prow . . . or Wordsworth's All shod with steel, We hiss'd along the polished ice ... or Tennyson's Old yew, which graspest at the stones That name the...dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapped about the bones. These were picked up in my last years at school, touchstones of sorts, where... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson - Poetry - 1994 - 644 pages
...long result of love, and boast, 'Behold the man that loved and lost, But all he was is overworn.' u Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the...under-lying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head. Thy roofs are wrapt about the bones. The seasons bring the flower again, And bring the firstling to the... | |
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OLD Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the underlying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones. The seasons bring the flower again, And bring the firstling to the flock; And in the dusk of thee, the clock Beats... 
