The Princess: A MedleyEdward Moxon, 1851 - 182 pages |
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... look'd on her , So gracious was her tact and tenderness : But my good father thought a king a king ; He cared not for the affection of the house ; He held his sceptre like a pedant's wand To lash offence , and with long arms and hands ...
... look'd on her , So gracious was her tact and tenderness : But my good father thought a king a king ; He cared not for the affection of the house ; He held his sceptre like a pedant's wand To lash offence , and with long arms and hands ...
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... look'd the lips : but while I meditated A wind arose and rush'd upon the South , And shook the songs , the whispers , and the shrieks Of the wild woods together ; and a Voice Went with it ' Follow , follow , thou shalt win . ' Then ...
... look'd the lips : but while I meditated A wind arose and rush'd upon the South , And shook the songs , the whispers , and the shrieks Of the wild woods together ; and a Voice Went with it ' Follow , follow , thou shalt win . ' Then ...
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... look upon her As on a kind of paragon ; and I ( Pardon me saying it ) were much loth to breed Dispute betwixt myself and mine : but since ( And I confess with right ) you think me bound In some sort , I can give you letters to her ; And ...
... look upon her As on a kind of paragon ; and I ( Pardon me saying it ) were much loth to breed Dispute betwixt myself and mine : but since ( And I confess with right ) you think me bound In some sort , I can give you letters to her ; And ...
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... look'd across a land of hope , We dropt with evening on a rustic town Set in a gleaming river's crescent - curve , Close at the boundary of the liberties ; There enter'd an old hostel , call'd mine host To council , plied him with his ...
... look'd across a land of hope , We dropt with evening on a rustic town Set in a gleaming river's crescent - curve , Close at the boundary of the liberties ; There enter'd an old hostel , call'd mine host To council , plied him with his ...
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A Medley Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. She look'd as grand as doomsday and as grave : And he , he reverenced his liege - lady there ; He always made a point to post with mares ; His daughter and his housemaid were the boys : The land ...
A Medley Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. She look'd as grand as doomsday and as grave : And he , he reverenced his liege - lady there ; He always made a point to post with mares ; His daughter and his housemaid were the boys : The land ...
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Page 171 - 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 noble words...
Page 78 - O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And tell her, tell her what I tell to thee. ' O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North.
Page 73 - O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 75 - 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.
Page 180 - For me, the genial day, the happy crowd, The sport half-science, fill me with a faith. This fine old world of ours is but a child Yet in the go-cart. Patience ! Give it time To learn its limbs : there is a hand that guides.
Page 156 - 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 168 - And come, for Love is of the valley, come, For Love is of the valley, come thou down And find him; by the happy threshold, he, Or hand in hand with Plenty in the maize, Or red with spirted purple of the vats, Or foxlike in the vine ; nor cares to walk With Death and Morning on the silver horns, 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...
Page 76 - 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 134 - Then they praised him, soft and low, CalPd him worthy to be loved, Truest friend and noblest foe; Yet she neither spoke nor moved. Stole a maiden from her place, Lightly to the warrior stept, Took the face-cloth from the face; Yet she neither moved nor wept.
Page 76 - Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. 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; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!