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Page 10
Valuing the giddy pleasure of the eyes . Yet , for a man may fail in duty twice , ,
And the third time may prosper , get thee hence : But , if thou spare to fling
Excalibur , I will arise and slay thee with my hands . ” Then quickly rose Sir
Bedivere ...
Valuing the giddy pleasure of the eyes . Yet , for a man may fail in duty twice , ,
And the third time may prosper , get thee hence : But , if thou spare to fling
Excalibur , I will arise and slay thee with my hands . ” Then quickly rose Sir
Bedivere ...
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So like a shatter ' d column lay the King ; Not like that Arthur who , with lance in
rest , From spur to plume a star of tournament , Shot thro ' the lists at Camelot ,
and charged Before the eyes of ladies and of kings . Then loudly cried the bold
Sir ...
So like a shatter ' d column lay the King ; Not like that Arthur who , with lance in
rest , From spur to plume a star of tournament , Shot thro ' the lists at Camelot ,
and charged Before the eyes of ladies and of kings . Then loudly cried the bold
Sir ...
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... my city - rooms ; or fruits and cream Served in the weeping elm ; and more and
more A word could bring the colour to my cheek ; A thought would fill my eyes
with happy dew ; Love trebled life within me , and with each The year increased .
... my city - rooms ; or fruits and cream Served in the weeping elm ; and more and
more A word could bring the colour to my cheek ; A thought would fill my eyes
with happy dew ; Love trebled life within me , and with each The year increased .
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But this whole hour your eyes have been intent On that veil ' d picture — veil ' d ,
for what it holds May not be dwelt on by the common day . This prelude has
prepared thee . Raise thy soul ; Make thine heart ready with thine eyes : the time
Is ...
But this whole hour your eyes have been intent On that veil ' d picture — veil ' d ,
for what it holds May not be dwelt on by the common day . This prelude has
prepared thee . Raise thy soul ; Make thine heart ready with thine eyes : the time
Is ...
Page 162
So much your eyes my fancy take Be still the first to leap to light That I might kiss
those eyes awake ! For , am I right or am I wrong , To choose your own you did
not care ; You ' d have my moral from the song , And I will take my pleasure there
...
So much your eyes my fancy take Be still the first to leap to light That I might kiss
those eyes awake ! For , am I right or am I wrong , To choose your own you did
not care ; You ' d have my moral from the song , And I will take my pleasure there
...
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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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