The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred, Lord TennysonHoughton Mifflin, 1898 - 887 pages |
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... face , Oriana . Oriana ? How could I look upon the day ? 50 Oriana They should have trod me into clay , Oriana . O breaking heart that will not break , Oriana ! O pale , pale face so sweet and meek , Oriana ! Thou smilest , but thou ...
... face , Oriana . Oriana ? How could I look upon the day ? 50 Oriana They should have trod me into clay , Oriana . O breaking heart that will not break , Oriana ! O pale , pale face so sweet and meek , Oriana ! Thou smilest , but thou ...
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... face , there like a sun remain Fix'd then as slowly fade again , And draw itself to what it was before ; So full , so deep , so slow , Thought seems to come and go In thy large eyes , imperial Eleänore . VII As thunder - clouds that ...
... face , there like a sun remain Fix'd then as slowly fade again , And draw itself to what it was before ; So full , so deep , so slow , Thought seems to come and go In thy large eyes , imperial Eleänore . VII As thunder - clouds that ...
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... face . ' The sullen answer slid betwixt : ' Not that the grounds of hope were fix'd , The elements were kindlier mix'd . ' I said : ' I toil beneath the curse , But , knowing not the universe , I fear to slide from bad to worse ; ' And ...
... face . ' The sullen answer slid betwixt : ' Not that the grounds of hope were fix'd , The elements were kindlier mix'd . ' I said : ' I toil beneath the curse , But , knowing not the universe , I fear to slide from bad to worse ; ' And ...
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... face how much I hate Her presence , hated both of Gods and men . ' O mother , hear me yet before I die . Hath he not sworn his love a thousand times , In this green valley , under this green hill , Even on this hand , and sitting on ...
... face how much I hate Her presence , hated both of Gods and men . ' O mother , hear me yet before I die . Hath he not sworn his love a thousand times , In this green valley , under this green hill , Even on this hand , and sitting on ...
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... face The star - like sorrows of immortal eyes , Spoke slowly in her place : 90 I had great beauty ; ask thou not my name : No one can be more wise than destiny . Many drew swords and died . Where'er I came I brought calamity . ' ' No ...
... face The star - like sorrows of immortal eyes , Spoke slowly in her place : 90 I had great beauty ; ask thou not my name : No one can be more wise than destiny . Many drew swords and died . Where'er I came I brought calamity . ' ' No ...
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Page 91 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 69 - 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 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 of God.
Page 136 - Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 90 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades 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...
Page 442 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her...
Page 755 - SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me ! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark ! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark ; For tho...
Page 68 - And answer made King Arthur, breathing hard : " My end draws nigh ; 't is time that I were gone. Make broad thy shoulders to receive my weight, And bear me to the margin ; yet I fear My wound hath taken cold, and I shall die." So saying, from the pavement he half rose, Slowly, with pain, reclining on his arm, And looking wistfully with wide blue eyes As in a picture. Him Sir Bedivere Remorsefully regarded thro...
Page 449 - And if indeed I cast the brand away, Surely a precious thing, one worthy note, Should thus be lost for ever from the earth, Which might have pleased the 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? The King is sick, and knows not what he does.
Page 68 - But the other swiftly strode from ridge to ridge, Clothed with his breath, and looking, as he walk'd, Larger than human on the frozen hills. He heard the deep behind him, and a cry Before. His own thought drove him, like a goad. Dry...
Page 196 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have .spun: If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice " believe no more " And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd