Tennyson's The PrincessH. Holt, 1900 - 185 pages |
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Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson answer'd apparently Arac arms beauty brows burlesque CANTO character child Cyril dark daughter death degree diction discerned dream Edited English expression eyes fact fair feeling figure Florian friends Frithiof's Saga Gama girls hall Hallam Tennyson hand head heart Heaven Ida's imagine interpretative Joan of Arc kind king Lady Blanche Lady Psyche light Lilia lines literature live look'd Lucius Junius Brutus maiden maids Marinistic mean mediæval Melissa mind mood Moral leper morning mother night noble paragraph phrasing Pindar poem poetic poetry Prince Prince's father Princess Princess Ida prose Psyche's rose sapience satin-wood seem'd shadow song soul speak spiritual star suggestion sweet Tennyson thee things thought thro Tomyris true Truth turn'd vex'd voice Wallace Walter weird seizures wild Winter's Tale woman women Woodberry word young Zeus
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Page 100 - For woman is not undevelopt man, . But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain: his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 45 - On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Page 45 - 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 97 - 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 milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me.
Page xlvii - That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 98 - ... broken purpose waste in air : So waste not thou ; but come ; for all the vales Await thee; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Page 92 - I strove against the stream and all in vain ; Let the great river take me to the main. No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield ; Ask me no more.
Page 101 - Then comes the statelier Eden back to men : Then reign the world's great bridals, chaste and calm : Then springs the crowning race of humankind. May these things be ! " Sighing she spoke,
Page 76 - 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; All else confusion.
Page 98 - Nor wilt thou snare him in the white ravine, Nor find him dropt upon the firths of ice, That huddling slant in furrow-cloven falls To roll the torrent out of dusky doors: But follow; let the torrent dance thee down To find him in the valley; let the wild Lean-headed Eagles yelp alone...