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Published as part of "The Princess," its second stanza evokes two ships: one bringing "friends up from the underworld," the other "sinking with all we love below the verge." The third stanza compares the title objects to the song of "half-awakened birds" heard by a dying man, while the fourth and final stanza compares them to "remembered kisses after death," which cause the speaker to feel "deep as first love, and wild with all regret." Each stanza ends with "the days that are no more," which the speaker originally recalls while "looking on the happy Autumn-fields" after the title objects arise "from the depths of some divine despair." FTP, name this Tennyson poem whose speaker weeps in vain.
Published as part of "The Princess," its second stanza evokes two ships: one bringing "friends up from the underworld," the other "sinking with all we love below the verge.
"{Tears, Idle Tears}"