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Half light , half shade , She stood a sight to make an old man young . So rapt , we
near ' d the house ; but she , a Rose In roses , mingled with her fragrant toil , Nor
heard us come , nor from her tendance turn ' d Into the world without ; till close ...
Half light , half shade , She stood a sight to make an old man young . So rapt , we
near ' d the house ; but she , a Rose In roses , mingled with her fragrant toil , Nor
heard us come , nor from her tendance turn ' d Into the world without ; till close ...
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Into the world without ; till close at hand , And almost ere I knew mine own intent ,
This murmur broke the stillness of that air Which brooded round about her : “ Ah ,
one rose , One rose , but one , by those fair fingers cull ' d , Were worth a ...
Into the world without ; till close at hand , And almost ere I knew mine own intent ,
This murmur broke the stillness of that air Which brooded round about her : “ Ah ,
one rose , One rose , but one , by those fair fingers cull ' d , Were worth a ...
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My right leg chain ' d into the crag , I lay Pent in a roofless close of ragged stones
, Inswath ' d sometimes in wandering mist , and twice Black ' d with thy branding
thunder , and sometimes Sucking the damps for drink , and eating not , Except ...
My right leg chain ' d into the crag , I lay Pent in a roofless close of ragged stones
, Inswath ' d sometimes in wandering mist , and twice Black ' d with thy branding
thunder , and sometimes Sucking the damps for drink , and eating not , Except ...
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All round the hedge upshoots , and shows At distance like a little wood ; Thorns ,
ivies , woodbine , misletoes , And grapes with bunches red as blood ; All
creeping plants , a wall of green Close - matted , bur and brake and briar , And ...
All round the hedge upshoots , and shows At distance like a little wood ; Thorns ,
ivies , woodbine , misletoes , And grapes with bunches red as blood ; All
creeping plants , a wall of green Close - matted , bur and brake and briar , And ...
Page 155
More close and close his footsteps wind ; The magic music in his heart Beats
quick and quicker , till he find - The quiet chamber far apart . His spirit flutters like
a lark , He stoops — to kiss her - on his knee . “ Love , if thy tresses be so dark ,
How ...
More close and close his footsteps wind ; The magic music in his heart Beats
quick and quicker , till he find - The quiet chamber far apart . His spirit flutters like
a lark , He stoops — to kiss her - on his knee . “ Love , if thy tresses be so dark ,
How ...
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Page 93 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 103 - From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum, throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
Page 92 - In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 102 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Page 4 - And in the moon athwart the place of tombs, Where lay the mighty bones of ancient men, Old knights, and over them the sea-wind sang Shrill, chill, with flakes of foam. He, stepping down By zigzag paths, and juts of pointed rock, Came on the shining levels of the lake. There drew he forth the brand Excalibur...
Page 106 - There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing-space ; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
Page 11 - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, ' Place me in the barge ;
Page 11 - Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream - by these Three Queens with crowns of gold - and from them rose A cry that shivered to the tingling stars...
Page 91 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Page 98 - Comfort? comfort scorned of devils; this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof.
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| Title | Poems, Volume 2 Poems, Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson Volume 2 of Poems: In Two Volumes, Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson |
| Author | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Edward Moxon, 1846 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 13 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 235 pages |
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