PoemsE. Moxon, 1850 - 374 pages |
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... lips Silver - treble laughter trilleth : Prythee weep , May Lilian . Praying all I can , If prayers will not hush thee , Airy Lilian , Like a rose - leaf I will crush thee , Fairy Lilian . ISABEL . EYES not down - dropt nor over - LILIAN .
... lips Silver - treble laughter trilleth : Prythee weep , May Lilian . Praying all I can , If prayers will not hush thee , Airy Lilian , Like a rose - leaf I will crush thee , Fairy Lilian . ISABEL . EYES not down - dropt nor over - LILIAN .
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... lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity , Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood , Revered Isabel , the crown and head , The stately flower of female fortitude , Of perfect wifehood and pure The intuitive ...
... lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity , Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood , Revered Isabel , the crown and head , The stately flower of female fortitude , Of perfect wifehood and pure The intuitive ...
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... ; Then in madness and in bliss , If my lips should dare to kiss Thy taper fingers amorously , Again thou blushest angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden - curved frown . SONG . THE OWL . WHEN cats run home and 16 MADELINE .
... ; Then in madness and in bliss , If my lips should dare to kiss Thy taper fingers amorously , Again thou blushest angerly ; And o'er black brows drops down A sudden - curved frown . SONG . THE OWL . WHEN cats run home and 16 MADELINE .
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... lips and full blue eyes Take the heart from out my breast . Wherefore those dim looks of thine , Shadowy , dreaming Adeline ? Whence that aery bloom of thine , Like a lily which the sun Looks thro ' in his sad decline , And a rose ...
... lips and full blue eyes Take the heart from out my breast . Wherefore those dim looks of thine , Shadowy , dreaming Adeline ? Whence that aery bloom of thine , Like a lily which the sun Looks thro ' in his sad decline , And a rose ...
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Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. Of a maiden past away , Ere the placid lips be cold ? Wherefore those faint smiles of thine , Spiritual Adeline ? What hope or fear or joy is thine ? Who talketh with thee , Adeline ? For sure thou art not ...
Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. Of a maiden past away , Ere the placid lips be cold ? Wherefore those faint smiles of thine , Spiritual Adeline ? What hope or fear or joy is thine ? Who talketh with thee , Adeline ? For sure thou art not ...
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answer'd beneath blow breast breath brow Camelot CHARLES LAMB cheek cloth cloud dark Dear mother Ida death deep dipt Dora dream earth EDWARD MOXON Eleänore Enone evermore Excalibur eyes face faint fair fall floating flowers folds golden prime grave gray green hand happy harken ere Haroun Alraschid hath hear heard heart Heaven hour King King Arthur kiss kiss'd Lady Clare Lady of Shalott land last embrace Let them rave light lightly lips live Locksley Hall look look'd Lord measured words mermen mind moon morn morocco never night o'er Oriana POEMS Queen roll'd rose round saw thro seem'd shadow SIMEON STYLITES sing Sir Bedivere sleep slowly smile song soul sound spake speak spirit stars stept summer sweet tears thee thine things thought thro turn'd unto Vere de Vere voice volume 8vo weary weep wild wind
Popular passages
Page 11 - He cometh not,' she said ; She said, ' I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead...
Page 147 - We have had enough of action, and of motion we, Roll'd to starboard, roll'd to larboard, when the surge was seething free. Where the wallowing monster spouted his foam-fountains in the sea. Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Page 141 - A land where all things always seem'd the same ! And round about the keel with faces pale, Dark faces pale against that rosy flame, The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came.
Page 17 - And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay : Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.
Page 267 - Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions with a mute observance hung. And I said, " My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to me, Trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee.
Page 192 - Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere: 'The sequel of to-day unsolders all The goodliest fellowship of famous knights Whereof this world holds record. Such a sleep They sleep - the men I loved. I think that we Shall...
Page 263 - I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 200 - So said he, and the barge with oar and sail Moved from the brink, like some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume...
Page 277 - Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
Page 100 - Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die. It was the deep midnoon : one silvery cloud Had lost his way between the piney sides Of this long glen. Then to the bower they came, Naked they came to that smooth-swarded bower, And at their feet the crocus brake like fire, Violet, amaracus, and asphodel, Lotos and lilies : and a wind arose, And overhead the wandering ivy and vine, This way and that, in many a wild festoon Ran riot, garlanding the gnarled boughs With bunch and berry and flower thro