The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, 3. köideHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 |
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... hope nor trust ; May make my heart as a millstone , set my face as a flint , Cheat and be cheated , and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust . IX . Peace sitting under her olive , and slurring the days gone by When the poor are ...
... hope nor trust ; May make my heart as a millstone , set my face as a flint , Cheat and be cheated , and die : who knows ? we are ashes and dust . IX . Peace sitting under her olive , and slurring the days gone by When the poor are ...
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... hope of light . X. I. SICK , am I sick of a jealous dread ? Was not one of the two at her side This new - made lord , whose splendor plucks The slavish hat from the villager's head ? Whose old grandfather has lately died , Gone to a ...
... hope of light . X. I. SICK , am I sick of a jealous dread ? Was not one of the two at her side This new - made lord , whose splendor plucks The slavish hat from the villager's head ? Whose old grandfather has lately died , Gone to a ...
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... hope to pay ; And if ever I should forget That I owe this debt to you And for your sweet sake to yours ; O then , what then shall I say ? — If ever I should forget , May God make me more wretched Than ever I have been yet ! X. So now I ...
... hope to pay ; And if ever I should forget That I owe this debt to you And for your sweet sake to yours ; O then , what then shall I say ? — If ever I should forget , May God make me more wretched Than ever I have been yet ! X. So now I ...
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... wear her jewels , And the bird of prey will hover , And the titmouse hope to win her With his chirrup at her ear . III . A grand political dinner To the men of many acres , A gathering of the Tory , A dinner and then MAUD 31.
... wear her jewels , And the bird of prey will hover , And the titmouse hope to win her With his chirrup at her ear . III . A grand political dinner To the men of many acres , A gathering of the Tory , A dinner and then MAUD 31.
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... hope for the world in the coming wars- " And in that hope , dear soul , let trouble have rest , Knowing I tarry for thee , " and pointed to Mars As he glow'd like a ruddy shield on the Lion's breast . II . And it was but a dream , yet ...
... hope for the world in the coming wars- " And in that hope , dear soul , let trouble have rest , Knowing I tarry for thee , " and pointed to Mars As he glow'd like a ruddy shield on the Lion's breast . II . And it was but a dream , yet ...
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Page 139 - There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 87 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 189 - 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 179 - 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...
Page 233 - ... 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. Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake : So fold thyself, my dearest,...
Page 86 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 51 - Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made him : thou art just.
Page 149 - Whereof the man, that with me trod This planet, was a noble type Appearing ere the times were ripe, That friend of mine who lives in God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 88 - So careful of the type ?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone : I care for nothing, all shall go. 'Thou makest thine appeal to me : I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath : I know no more.
Page 88 - Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed — Who loved, who suffer'd countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal'd within the iron hills? No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him.