 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...BARON HOUGHTON—" Richard Monckton Milnes." THE BROOKSIDE. I wander'd by the brookside, I wander'd by the mill,— I could not hear the brook flow, The...beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. I sat beneath the elm-tree, I watch'd the Jong, long shade, And as it grew still longer, I did not... | |
 | Albert Ellery Berg - Actors - 1884 - 826 pages
...; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still ; There was no burr of grasshopper, No chirp of any bird ; But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. I sat beneath the elm-tree ; I watched the long, long shade, And, as it grew still longer, I did not... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1890 - 640 pages
...could not hear the brook flow, — The noisy wheel was still; There was no burr of grasshopper, No chirp of any bird, But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. I sat beneath the elm tree; I watched the long, long shade And as it grew still longer, I did not feel... | |
 | Thomas Wemyss Reid - 1890 - 556 pages
...paper. It was the wellknown song beginning, " I wandered by the brookside," and having the refrain, " But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard." When he came down to dinner he brought the verses with him, and showed them to his friends. They were... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson, Frederick James Rowe, William Trego Webb - 1890 - 182 pages
...ghosts. 36. his beating heart. He heard the pulsations of his own heart : cf. Lord Houghton : — "And the beating of my own heart was all the sound I heard." 37. sat them down. Them is here grammatically in the dative case ; reflexive datives with intransitive... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson, Frederick James Rowe, William Trego Webb - 1890 - 178 pages
...36'. his beating heart. He heard the pulsations of his own heart : cf. Lord Houghton : — ' ' And the beating of my own heart was all the sound I heard. " 37. sat them down. Them, is here grammatically in the dative case ; reflexive datives with intransitive... | |
 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 pages
...could not hear the brook flow, — The noisy wheel was still; There was no burr of grasshopper, No chirp of any bird, But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. I sat beneath the elm tree; I watched the long, long shade And as it grew still longer, I did not feel... | |
 | Walter Learned - American poetry - 1891 - 404 pages
...; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still : There was no burr of grasshopper, No chirp of any bird ; But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. I sat beneath the elm tree, I watch'd the long, long shade, And as it grew still longer I did not feel... | |
 | American poetry - 1891 - 214 pages
...I could not hear the brook flow — The noisy wheel was still. There was no burr of grasshopper, No chirp of any bird, But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard• I sat beneath the elm-tree : I watched the long, long shade, And, as it grew still longer, I did not... | |
 | John White Chadwick - Poetry - 1891 - 232 pages
...Each on his golden throne ; The evening wind passed by my cheek, The leaves above were stirred — But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. Fast silent tears were flowing, When something stood behind ; A hand was on my shoulder — I knew... | |
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I listened for a footfall, I listened for a word, — But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. 
