Tears, Idle Tears

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1847) — a poem card from Justes Mots

Tears that rise from no nameable wound — only the ache of days that cannot return.

  Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,

Tears from the depth of some divine despair

Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,

In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
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Themes: grief · reflection