“Break, break, break
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.”
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            
            
        
        
        
        
        
        "Break, Break, Break" (1842), st. 4
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British poet laureate 1809–1892Related quotes
 
                            
                        
                        
                        Source: The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913), The Crowning Hour, III
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “When our hearts break, they break into shards that cannot be easily fit back together.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
 
                            
                        
                        
                        
                                
                                    “The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.”
                                
                                
                                
                                
                            
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 33.
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “Break free, my soul, good manners are thy tomb!”
"Reason Enough", line 18; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 75.
 
        
     
                             
                             
                            