The Vision of Sir Launfal, and Other PoemsMifflin, 1905 - 113 pages A narrative poem about a proud medieval knight who spends his life seeking abroad for the Holy Grail in vain, only to find it at home when he humbly gives a crust of bread and cup of water to a leper. |
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... Leads all his shivering lambs to one sure fold Were careful for the fashion of His crook . 5 10 There is no broken reed so poor and base , No rush , the bending tilt of swamp - fly blue , But He therewith the ravening wolf can chase ...
... Leads all his shivering lambs to one sure fold Were careful for the fashion of His crook . 5 10 There is no broken reed so poor and base , No rush , the bending tilt of swamp - fly blue , But He therewith the ravening wolf can chase ...
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... leads naturally to the eleventh , and that I there justify a certain narrowness in it as an expression of the popular feeling as well as my own . I confess I have never got over the feeling of wrath with which ( just after the death of ...
... leads naturally to the eleventh , and that I there justify a certain narrowness in it as an expression of the popular feeling as well as my own . I confess I have never got over the feeling of wrath with which ( just after the death of ...
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... leads the path To ampler fates that leads ? Not down through flowery meads , To reap an aftermath Of youth's vainglorious weeds ; But up the steep , amid the wrath 110 And shock of deadly hostile creeds , Where the world's 62 THE ...
... leads the path To ampler fates that leads ? Not down through flowery meads , To reap an aftermath Of youth's vainglorious weeds ; But up the steep , amid the wrath 110 And shock of deadly hostile creeds , Where the world's 62 THE ...
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... lead ; One whose meek flock the people joyed to be , Not lured by any cheat of birth , But by his clear - grained human worth , And brave old wisdom of sincerity ! 170 VI . This stanza was not recited ; it was composed immedi- ately ...
... lead ; One whose meek flock the people joyed to be , Not lured by any cheat of birth , But by his clear - grained human worth , And brave old wisdom of sincerity ! 170 VI . This stanza was not recited ; it was composed immedi- ately ...
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... " The paths of glory lead but to the grave . " Tennyson uses the same words , but with different and nobler meaning , in his Ode to the Duke of Wellington . To darkness driven by that imperious gust Of ever - 68 THE COMMEMORATION ODE.
... " The paths of glory lead but to the grave . " Tennyson uses the same words , but with different and nobler meaning , in his Ode to the Duke of Wellington . To darkness driven by that imperious gust Of ever - 68 THE COMMEMORATION ODE.
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Page 26 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 31 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 28 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust. Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just. Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside. Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified. And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Page 66 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all' are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Page 3 - Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 22 - MEN ! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave ? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed...
Page 15 - Lo, it is I, be not afraid In many climes, without avail, Thou hast spent thy life for the Holy Grail; Behold, it is here, — this cup which thou Didst fill at the streamlet for me but now; This crust is my body broken for thee; This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor,...
Page 8 - But he who gives but a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, — The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god goes with it and makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before.
Page 4 - Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a ripply cheer, Into every bare inlet and creek and bay; Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God wills it...
Page 26 - ... Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou...