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Page 53
ALTHO ' I be the basest of mankind , From scalp to sole one slough and crust of
sin , Unfit for earth , unfit for heaven , scarce meet For troops of devils , mad with
blasphemy , I will not cease to grasp the hope I hold Of saintdom , and to clamour
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ALTHO ' I be the basest of mankind , From scalp to sole one slough and crust of
sin , Unfit for earth , unfit for heaven , scarce meet For troops of devils , mad with
blasphemy , I will not cease to grasp the hope I hold Of saintdom , and to clamour
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Page 128
Much less this dreamer , deaf and blind , Named man , may hope some truth to
find , That bears relation to the mind . “ For every worm beneath the moon Draws
different threads , and late and soon Spins , toiling out his own cocoon .
Much less this dreamer , deaf and blind , Named man , may hope some truth to
find , That bears relation to the mind . “ For every worm beneath the moon Draws
different threads , and late and soon Spins , toiling out his own cocoon .
Page 152
Come , Care and Pleasure , Hope and Pain , And bring the fated fairy Prince .
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY . Year after year unto her feet , She lying on her couch
alone , Across the purpled coverlet , The maiden ' s jet - black hair has grown , On
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Come , Care and Pleasure , Hope and Pain , And bring the fated fairy Prince .
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY . Year after year unto her feet , She lying on her couch
alone , Across the purpled coverlet , The maiden ' s jet - black hair has grown , On
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Page 172
II As these white robes are soiled and dark , To yonder shining ground ; As this
pale taper ' s earthly spark , To yonder argent round ; So shows my soul before
the Lamb , My spirit before Thee ; So in mine earthly house I am , To that I hope to
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II As these white robes are soiled and dark , To yonder shining ground ; As this
pale taper ' s earthly spark , To yonder argent round ; So shows my soul before
the Lamb , My spirit before Thee ; So in mine earthly house I am , To that I hope to
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Page 177
A maiden knight — to me is given Such hope , I know not fear ; I yearn to breathe
the airs of heaven That often meet me here . I muse on joy that will not cease ,
Pure spaces cloth ' d in living beams , Pure lilies of eternal peace , Whose odours
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A maiden knight — to me is given Such hope , I know not fear ; I yearn to breathe
the airs of heaven That often meet me here . I muse on joy that will not cease ,
Pure spaces cloth ' d in living beams , Pure lilies of eternal peace , Whose odours
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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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