Tennyson's The PrincessAmerican Book Company, 1904 - 249 pages |
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Alfred Alfred Tennyson answer'd Arac beauty blank verse boys brother brows child colour Cyril dark daughter dead death dream early editions Edmund Lushington English eyes fair fall'n father Florian flowers flying girl golden Greek hall Hallam hand head hear heard heart Heaven HENRY VAN DYKE honour Iliad JULIUS CÆSAR KATHARINE LEE BATES King Lady Blanche Lady Psyche land light Lilia Lincolnshire lives look'd lyric maiden maids mediæval Melissa moon morning mother move night noble o'er once ourself palace Palace of Art Persephone Pindar poem poet Prince Princess Princess Ida Professor Psyche's queen rose satin-wood seem'd shadow Somersby song soul spake speak spoke star stood strange sweet talk'd tears Tennyson thee Theocritus thou thought thro turn'd University voice Wallace wild wind woman women word wrote
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Page 207 - I saw eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light. All calm, as it was bright: And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd.
Page 235 - Alas! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 103 - The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. 35 • Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others ; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; 0 Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Page 102 - 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. 30
Page 184 - {Resolution and Independence): — " The old Man still stood talking by my side, But now his voice to me was like a stream Scarce heard; nor word from word could I divide; And the whole body of the man did seem Like one whom I had met with in a dream.
Page 183 - intensity of the consciousness of individuality, the individuality itself seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being, and this not a confused state, but the clearest, the surest of the surest, utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility, the loss of personality, if so it were, seeming no extinction, but
Page 163 - Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The fire-fly wakens : waken thou with me. ' Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost, 165 And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.
Page 138 - down the scales ; but this is fixt 435 As are the roots of earth and base of all; Man for the field and woman for the hearth : Man for the sword and for the needle she: Man with the head and woman with the heart: Man to command and woman to obey; 440 All else confusion. Look you
Page 202 - Nor was his name unheard, or unador'd, In ancient Greece; and in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber: and how he fell From heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements; from morn • To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos th
Page 220 - Lady, let the rolling drums Beat to battle where thy warrior stands. Now thy face across his fancy comes, And gives the battle to his hands. " Lady, let the trumpets blow, Clasp thy little babes about thy knee: Now their warrior father meets the foe, And strikes him dead for thine and thee.