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b'A Tennyson read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\n\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\n\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n \\n\\n---------------------------------------\\n\\n \\n\\nTears Idle Tears\\n\\nby Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 \\u2013 1892)\\n\\n \\n\\nSongs from \\u201cThe Princess.\\u201d IV. Tears, Idle Tears\\n\\n \\n\\nTears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,\\n\\nTears from the depth of some divine despair\\n\\nRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,\\n\\nIn looking on the happy Autumn-fields,\\n\\nAnd thinking of the days that are no more.\\n\\n \\n\\nFresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,\\n\\nThat brings our friends up from the underworld,\\n\\nSad as the last which reddens over one\\n\\nThat sinks with all we love below the verge;\\n\\nSo sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.\\n\\n \\n\\nAh, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns\\n\\nThe earliest pipe of half-awaken\\u2019d birds\\n\\nTo dying ears, when unto dying eyes\\n\\nThe casement slowly grows a glimmering square;\\n\\nSo sad, so strange, the days that are no more.\\n\\n \\n\\nDear as remember\\u2019d kisses after death,\\n\\nAnd sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign\\u2019d\\n\\nOn lips that are for others; deep as love,\\n\\nDeep as first love, and wild with all regret;\\n\\nO Death in Life, the days that are no more.\\n\\n \\n\\nFirst aired: 13 May 2008\\n\\n \\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\n \\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009'