The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Issue 841, Volume 8Henry S. King, 1875 |
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... state in each , How far from just ; till warming with her theme She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique And little - footed China , touch'd on Mahomet With much contempt , and came to chivalry : When C 2 A MEDLEY . 35.
... state in each , How far from just ; till warming with her theme She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique And little - footed China , touch'd on Mahomet With much contempt , and came to chivalry : When C 2 A MEDLEY . 35.
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... laws , and all the rest , And whatsoever can be taught and known ; Till like three horses that have broken fence , And glutted all night long breast - deep in corn , We issued gorged with knowledge , and I spoke : " Why , Sirs , they do ...
... laws , and all the rest , And whatsoever can be taught and known ; Till like three horses that have broken fence , And glutted all night long breast - deep in corn , We issued gorged with knowledge , and I spoke : " Why , Sirs , they do ...
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... laws , in the end Found golden : let the past be past ; let be Their cancell'd Babels : tho ' the rough kex break The starr'd mosaic , and the beard - blown goat Hang on the shaft , and the wild figtree split Their monstrous idols ...
... laws , in the end Found golden : let the past be past ; let be Their cancell'd Babels : tho ' the rough kex break The starr'd mosaic , and the beard - blown goat Hang on the shaft , and the wild figtree split Their monstrous idols ...
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... laws , which learnt , We , conscious of what temper you are built , Came all in haste to hinder wrong , but fell Into his father's hands , who has this night , You lying close upon his territory , Slipt round and in the dark invested ...
... laws , which learnt , We , conscious of what temper you are built , Came all in haste to hinder wrong , but fell Into his father's hands , who has this night , You lying close upon his territory , Slipt round and in the dark invested ...
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... law within ? . Severer in the logic of a life ? Twice as magnetic to sweet influences Of earth and heaven ? and she of whom you speak , My mother , looks as whole as some serene Creation minted in the golden moods Of sovereign artists ...
... law within ? . Severer in the logic of a life ? Twice as magnetic to sweet influences Of earth and heaven ? and she of whom you speak , My mother , looks as whole as some serene Creation minted in the golden moods Of sovereign artists ...
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Page 145 - Or all, they said, as earnest as the close ? Which yet with such a framework scarce could be. Then rose a little feud betwixt the two, Betwixt the mockers and the realists : And I, betwixt them both, to please them both, And yet to give the story as it rose, I moved as in a strange diagonal, And maybe neither pleased myself nor them.
Page 137 - Their thousand wreaths of dangling water-smoke, That like a broken purpose waste in air : So waste not thou ; but come ; for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Page 111 - She nor swoon'd, nor utter'd cry : All her maidens, watching, said, "She must weep or she will die." Then they praised him, soft and low, Call'd 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 slept, Took the face-cloth from the face ; Yet she neither moved nor wept.
Page 66 - 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 67 - 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!