The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, 1. köideMacmillan, 1894 - 898 pages |
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... truth , It is man's privilege to doubt , If so be that from doubt at length , Truth may stand forth unmoved of change , An image with profulgent brows , And perfect limbs , as from the storm Of running fires and fluid range Of lawless ...
... truth , It is man's privilege to doubt , If so be that from doubt at length , Truth may stand forth unmoved of change , An image with profulgent brows , And perfect limbs , as from the storm Of running fires and fluid range Of lawless ...
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... Truth shall droop not now With shrilling shafts of subtle wit . Nor martyr - flames , nor trenchant swords Can do away that ancient lie ; A gentler death shall Falsehood die , Shot thro ' and thro ' with cunning words . III . Weak Truth ...
... Truth shall droop not now With shrilling shafts of subtle wit . Nor martyr - flames , nor trenchant swords Can do away that ancient lie ; A gentler death shall Falsehood die , Shot thro ' and thro ' with cunning words . III . Weak Truth ...
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... truth , To throng with stately blooms the breath- ing spring Of Hope and Youth . Sunn'd by those orient skies ; But ... truth was multiplied on truth , the world Like one great garden show'd , And thro ' the wreaths of floating dark ...
... truth , To throng with stately blooms the breath- ing spring Of Hope and Youth . Sunn'd by those orient skies ; But ... truth was multiplied on truth , the world Like one great garden show'd , And thro ' the wreaths of floating dark ...
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... truth within thy mind rehearse , That in a boundless universe Is boundless better , boundless worse . ' Think you this mould of hopes and fears Could find no statelier than his peers In yonder hundred million spheres ? ' It spake ...
... truth within thy mind rehearse , That in a boundless universe Is boundless better , boundless worse . ' Think you this mould of hopes and fears Could find no statelier than his peers In yonder hundred million spheres ? ' It spake ...
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... truth to find , That bears relation to the mind . ' For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads , and late and soon Spins , toiling out his own cocoon . ' Cry , faint not : either Truth is born Beyond the polar gleam forlorn ...
... truth to find , That bears relation to the mind . ' For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads , and late and soon Spins , toiling out his own cocoon . ' Cry , faint not : either Truth is born Beyond the polar gleam forlorn ...
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Page 186 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. 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 180 - Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon ; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon : Sleep, my little one, sleep, my...
Page 95 - 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 186 - And thinking of the days that are no more. 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 473 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me ? I have lived my life, and that which I have done May He within himself make pure ! but thou, If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More 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...
Page 139 - 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 water-break Above the golden gravel...
Page 301 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear ; She is coming, my life, my fate ; The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near" ; And the white rose weeps, " She is late" ; The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear " ; And the lily whispers, " I wait." She is coming, my own, my sweet ; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed ; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead ;...
Page 472 - But the other swiftly strode from ridge to ridge, Clothed with his breath, and looking, as he walk'd, Larger than human on the frozen hills. He heard the deep behind him, and a cry Before. His own thought drove him like a goad. Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the...
Page 54 - In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
Page 247 - We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow. Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.