Poems, Volume 2Edward Moxon, 1842 - 231 pages |
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... thing , its use will come . I hoard it as a sugar - plum for Holmes . " He laugh'd , and I , though sleepy , like a horse That hears the corn - bin open , prick'd my ears , For I remember'd Everard's college fame When we were Freshmen ...
... thing , its use will come . I hoard it as a sugar - plum for Holmes . " He laugh'd , and I , though sleepy , like a horse That hears the corn - bin open , prick'd my ears , For I remember'd Everard's college fame When we were Freshmen ...
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... thing may harm a wounded man . Yet I thy hest will all perform at full , Watch what I see , and lightly bring thee word . " So saying , from the ruin'd shrine he stepp'd , And in the moon athwart the place of tombs , Where lay the ...
... thing may harm a wounded man . Yet I thy hest will all perform at full , Watch what I see , and lightly bring thee word . " So saying , from the ruin'd shrine he stepp'd , And in the moon athwart the place of tombs , Where lay the ...
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... thing for men to lie . Yet now , I charge thee , quickly go again As thou art lief and dear , and do the thing I bad thee , watch , and lightly bring me word . " Then went Sir Bedivere the second time , Counting the dewy pebbles , fix'd ...
... thing for men to lie . Yet now , I charge thee , quickly go again As thou art lief and dear , and do the thing I bad thee , watch , and lightly bring me word . " Then went Sir Bedivere the second time , Counting the dewy pebbles , fix'd ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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Alice the nurse AMPHION answer'd beggar maid beneath betwixt blow bold Sir Bedivere bore breast breath cheek child Cophetua crag dark death dipt Dora dream earth Edward Gray Ellen Adair Eustace evermore Excalibur eyes face fair fancy flower folded gate golden gone grew hand happy hast hear heard heart Heaven hope hour King Arthur kiss kiss'd knees Lady Clare last embrace laugh'd light lightly lips live Locksley Hall look look'd Lord Ronald mind moon moorland morn never night o'er pass'd praise QUEEN GUINEVERE replied rose round saints seem'd shade SIMEON STYLITES SIR LAUNCELOT sleep song soul sound spake speak stars stept summer sweet thee thine things thou art thought thrice thro thy dreams touch'd truth turn'd unto vapour Vext village maid voice whisper wife wind wither'd words yonder
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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 thunderstorm ; 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 174 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page 14 - And I, the last, go forth companionless, And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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 - So saying, from the ruin'd shrine he stept 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 11 - And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the mere. And lightly went the other to the King. Then spoke King Arthur, drawing thicker breath : 'Now see I by thine eyes that this is done. Speak out: what is it thou hast heard, or seen?
Page 97 - As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Page 89 - 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 99 - Comfort? comfort scorn'd 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 15 - So said he, and the barge with oar and sail Moved from the brink, like some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death...