The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet LaureateC. Kegan Paul, 1878 - 665 pages |
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... Answer The Brook To E. L. , on his Travels in Greece ' Break , break , break ' The Poet's Song ENOCH ARDEN , AND OTHER POEMS : Enoch Arden Aylmer's Field . 284 139 The Answer 284 139 Ay 285 · . 140 Sea Dreams The Golden Supper 181 ...
... Answer The Brook To E. L. , on his Travels in Greece ' Break , break , break ' The Poet's Song ENOCH ARDEN , AND OTHER POEMS : Enoch Arden Aylmer's Field . 284 139 The Answer 284 139 Ay 285 · . 140 Sea Dreams The Golden Supper 181 ...
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... answer from below . II . When in the darkness over me The four - handed mole shall scrape , Plant thou no dusky cypress - tree , Nor wreathe thy cap with doleful crape , But pledge me in the flowing grape . And when the sappy field and ...
... answer from below . II . When in the darkness over me The four - handed mole shall scrape , Plant thou no dusky cypress - tree , Nor wreathe thy cap with doleful crape , But pledge me in the flowing grape . And when the sappy field and ...
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... answer should one press his hands ? He answers not , nor understands . ' His palms are folded on his breast : There is no other thing express'd But long disquiet merged in rest . ' His lips are very mild and meek . Tho ' one should ...
... answer should one press his hands ? He answers not , nor understands . ' His palms are folded on his breast : There is no other thing express'd But long disquiet merged in rest . ' His lips are very mild and meek . Tho ' one should ...
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... answer to his doubt , ' But thou canst answer not again . With thine own weapon art thou slain , Or thou wilt answer but in vain . The doubt would rest , I dare not solve . In the same circle we revolve . Assurance only breeds resolve ...
... answer to his doubt , ' But thou canst answer not again . With thine own weapon art thou slain , Or thou wilt answer but in vain . The doubt would rest , I dare not solve . In the same circle we revolve . Assurance only breeds resolve ...
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... answer if I call ? O would she give me vow for vow , Sweet Alice , if I told her all ? ' Sometimes I saw you sit and spin ; And , in the pauses of the wind , Sometimes I heard you sing within ; Sometimes your shadow cross'd the blind ...
... answer if I call ? O would she give me vow for vow , Sweet Alice , if I told her all ? ' Sometimes I saw you sit and spin ; And , in the pauses of the wind , Sometimes I heard you sing within ; Sometimes your shadow cross'd the blind ...
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Page 302 - So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life, That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro...
Page 108 - Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' 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 107 - As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the scepter and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil...
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Page 107 - ULYSSES It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 301 - That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd 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.
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Page 108 - A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners. Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and...
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Page 157 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.