The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Volume 2Houghton Mifflin, 1898 - 887 pages |
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... SMILE " THOU CAMEST TO THY BOWER , MY LOVE , ACROSS THE MUSKY GROVE ' · 770 770 771 772 · 772 772 · 772 THE PASSIONS 753 · • BROTHERS . ' MEMORY . · · 755 A CONTRAST · THE EXILE'S HARP 756 THE DYING CHRISTIAN • ' WHY SHOULD WE WEEP FOR ...
... SMILE " THOU CAMEST TO THY BOWER , MY LOVE , ACROSS THE MUSKY GROVE ' · 770 770 771 772 · 772 772 · 772 THE PASSIONS 753 · • BROTHERS . ' MEMORY . · · 755 A CONTRAST · THE EXILE'S HARP 756 THE DYING CHRISTIAN • ' WHY SHOULD WE WEEP FOR ...
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... smile with saint - like glances Like Thine own mother's when she bow'd Above Thee , on that happy morn When angels spake to men aloud , And Thou and peace to earth were born . Good - will to me as well as all I one of them ; my brothers ...
... smile with saint - like glances Like Thine own mother's when she bow'd Above Thee , on that happy morn When angels spake to men aloud , And Thou and peace to earth were born . Good - will to me as well as all I one of them ; my brothers ...
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... smile or frown be fleeter ? Whether smile or frown be sweeter , Who may know ? Frowns perfect - sweet along the brow Light - glooming over eyes divine , Like little clouds sun - fringed , are thine , Ever varying Madeline . Thy smile ...
... smile or frown be fleeter ? Whether smile or frown be sweeter , Who may know ? Frowns perfect - sweet along the brow Light - glooming over eyes divine , Like little clouds sun - fringed , are thine , Ever varying Madeline . Thy smile ...
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... should be ever , Flowing like a crystal river , Bright as light , and clear as wind . II Dark - brow'd sophist , come not anear ; All the place is holy ground ; Hollow smile and frozen sneer Come not here . Holy 14 JUVENILIA.
... should be ever , Flowing like a crystal river , Bright as light , and clear as wind . II Dark - brow'd sophist , come not anear ; All the place is holy ground ; Hollow smile and frozen sneer Come not here . Holy 14 JUVENILIA.
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Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson William James Rolfe. Hollow smile and frozen sneer Come not here . Holy water will I pour Into every spicy flower Of the laurel - shrubs that hedge it around . The flowers would faint at your cruel cheer ...
Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson William James Rolfe. Hollow smile and frozen sneer Come not here . Holy water will I pour Into every spicy flower Of the laurel - shrubs that hedge it around . The flowers would faint at your cruel cheer ...
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Page 186 - disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the Christ that is to be. Ring in the valiant man and free. The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land,
Page 159 - truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years And Und in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand thro
Page 172 - I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. LVI • So careful of the type ? ' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, ' A thousand types are gone; I care for nothing, all shall go.
Page 171 - in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last —far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night;
Page 445 - never see my face again, Pray for my 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, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer
Page 445 - And slowly answer'd Arthur from the barge: ' The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. 410 Comfort thyself; what comfort is in me ? • . I have lived my life, and that which I have done May He within himself make pure ! but thou, *—-
Page 10 - Upon himself himself did feed; Quiet, dispassionate, and cold, And other than his form of creed, With chisell'd features clear and sleek. THE POET THE poet in a golden clime was born, With golden stars above; Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love. He saw
Page 63 - That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of goats prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend ? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet
Page 186 - the sin. The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring ont false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of
Page 208 - my life, my fate. The red rose cries, ' She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps, ' She is late; ' The larkspur listens, ' I hear, I hear; ' And the lily whispers, ' I wait.' Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat,