The Life and Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Works: v.1-2 [Poems] v.3. Experiments. The window. In memoriam A.H.H. Maud. Idylls of the king. v.4 Idylls of the king (Continued) v.5 The lover's tale. Ballads, and other poems. Sonnets. Translations, etc. Tiresias, and other poems. v.6. Queen Mary. Harold. v.7. Becket. The cup. The falcon. The promise of May. v.8. The foresters. Demeter, and other poems. The death of OEnone, and other poems. [IndexesMacmillan, 1899 |
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... Queen Boädicéa , standing loftily charioted , Brandishing in her hand a dart and rolling glances lioness - like , Yell'd and shriek'd between her daughters in her fierce volubility . Till her people all around the royal chariot agitated ...
... Queen Boädicéa , standing loftily charioted , Brandishing in her hand a dart and rolling glances lioness - like , Yell'd and shriek'd between her daughters in her fierce volubility . Till her people all around the royal chariot agitated ...
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... queen of the wrens ! You the queen of the wrens- We'll be birds of 20 THE WINDOW SPRING.
... queen of the wrens ! You the queen of the wrens- We'll be birds of 20 THE WINDOW SPRING.
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Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. You the queen of the wrens- We'll be birds of a feather , I'll be King of the Queen of the wrens , And all in a nest together . THE LETTER Where is another sweet as my sweet , Fine of the fine , and shy of ...
Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. You the queen of the wrens- We'll be birds of a feather , I'll be King of the Queen of the wrens , And all in a nest together . THE LETTER Where is another sweet as my sweet , Fine of the fine , and shy of ...
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... Queen Maud in all her splendour . XXI Rivulet crossing my ground , And bringing me down from the Hall This garden - rose that I found , Forgetful of Maud and me , And lost in trouble and moving round Here at the head of a tinkling fall ...
... Queen Maud in all her splendour . XXI Rivulet crossing my ground , And bringing me down from the Hall This garden - rose that I found , Forgetful of Maud and me , And lost in trouble and moving round Here at the head of a tinkling fall ...
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... the lea ; But the rose was awake all night for your Knowing your promise to me ; The lilies and roses were all awake , They sigh'd for the dawn and thee . sake , IX Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls , 219 MAUD.
... the lea ; But the rose was awake all night for your Knowing your promise to me ; The lilies and roses were all awake , They sigh'd for the dawn and thee . sake , IX Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls , 219 MAUD.
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Page 84 - 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 84 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 82 - 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 33 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on steppingstones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Page 158 - 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 220 - For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky, To faint in the light of the sun she loves, To faint in his light, and to die.
Page 31 - 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 15 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
Page 127 - Rock'd the full-foliaged elms, and swung The heavy-folded rose, and flung The lilies to and fro, and said
Page 83 - So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry.