Poems, Volume 2Edward Moxon, 1846 - 235 pages |
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... souls with talk of knightly deeds , Walking about the gardens and the halls Of Camelot , as in the days that were . I perish by this people which I made , — Though Merlin sware that I should come again To rule once more but let what ...
... souls with talk of knightly deeds , Walking about the gardens and the halls Of Camelot , as in the days that were . I perish by this people which I made , — Though Merlin sware that I should come again To rule once more but let what ...
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... soul . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of . Wherefore , let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day . For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain , If ...
... soul . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of . Wherefore , let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day . For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain , If ...
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... soul ; And vague desires , like fitful blasts of balm To one that travels quickly , made the air Of Life delicious , and all kinds of thought , That verged upon them , sweeter than the dream Dream'd by a happy man , when the dark East ...
... soul ; And vague desires , like fitful blasts of balm To one that travels quickly , made the air Of Life delicious , and all kinds of thought , That verged upon them , sweeter than the dream Dream'd by a happy man , when the dark East ...
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... dwelt on by the common day . This prelude has prepared thee . Raise thy soul ; Make thine heart ready with thine eyes : the time Is come to raise the veil . Behold her there , As I beheld her ere she OR , THE PICTURES . 31.
... dwelt on by the common day . This prelude has prepared thee . Raise thy soul ; Make thine heart ready with thine eyes : the time Is come to raise the veil . Behold her there , As I beheld her ere she OR , THE PICTURES . 31.
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... soul , Who may be saved ? who is it may be saved ? Who may be made a saint , if I fail here ? Show me the man hath suffer'd more than I. For did not all thy martyrs die one death ? For either they were stoned or crucified , Or burn'd in ...
... soul , Who may be saved ? who is it may be saved ? Who may be made a saint , if I fail here ? Show me the man hath suffer'd more than I. For did not all thy martyrs die one death ? For either they were stoned or crucified , Or burn'd in ...
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Page 95 - 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 105 - 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 94 - 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 104 - 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 6 - 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 108 - 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 13 - 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 13 - 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 93 - 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 100 - 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.