Poems, Volume 2Edward Moxon, 1846 - 235 pages |
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... of topaz - lights , and jacinth - work Of subtlest jewellery . He gazed so long That both his eyes were dazzled , as he stood , This way and that dividing the swift mind , In act to throw but at the last it seem'd MORTE D'ARTHUR .
... of topaz - lights , and jacinth - work Of subtlest jewellery . He gazed so long That both his eyes were dazzled , as he stood , This way and that dividing the swift mind , In act to throw but at the last it seem'd MORTE D'ARTHUR .
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... eyes of many men . What good should follow this , if this were done ? What harm , undone ? deep harm to disobey , Seeing obedience is the bond of rule . Were it well to obey then , if a king demand An act unprofitable , against himself ...
... eyes of many men . What good should follow this , if this were done ? What harm , undone ? deep harm to disobey , Seeing obedience is the bond of rule . Were it well to obey then , if a king demand An act unprofitable , against himself ...
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... eye That bow'd the will . I see thee what thou art . For thou , the latest - left of all my knights , In whom should meet the offices of all , Thou wouldst betray me for the precious hilt ; Either from lust ... eyes . Yet , MORTE D'ARThur .
... eye That bow'd the will . I see thee what thou art . For thou , the latest - left of all my knights , In whom should meet the offices of all , Thou wouldst betray me for the precious hilt ; Either from lust ... eyes . Yet , MORTE D'ARThur .
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Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. 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 ... eyes that is this 10 MORTE D'ARTHUR .
Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. 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 ... eyes that is this 10 MORTE D'ARTHUR .
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Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. " Now see I by thine eyes that is this done . Speak out what is it thou hast heard , or ... eyes As in a picture . Him Sir Bedivere Remorsefully regarded thro ' his tears , And would have MORTE D'ARTHUR . 11.
Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. " Now see I by thine eyes that is this done . Speak out what is it thou hast heard , or ... eyes As in a picture . Him Sir Bedivere Remorsefully regarded thro ' his tears , And would have MORTE D'ARTHUR . 11.
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Page 99 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Page 93 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades 10 Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all ; And drunk delight of battle with my peers.
Page 182 - And thro' the mountain-walls A rolling organ-harmony Swells up, and shakes and falls. Then move the trees, the copses nod, Wings flutter, voices hover clear : " O just and faithful knight of God ! Ride on ! the prize is near.
Page 108 - 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 7 - What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: f*"" I heard the ripple washing in the reeds \And the wild water lapping on the crag.
Page 181 - 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 clothed in living beams, Pure lilies of eternal peace, Whose...
Page 97 - Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander 'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time...
Page 121 - To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. ' An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. ' He dried his wings : like gauze they grew : Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
Page 104 - 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.
Page 97 - 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.