| Hannah R. Hudson - 1874 - 232 pages
...embracing sunbeams chastely play And gladden these deep solitudes." LONGFELLOW. COMBAT IN THE LISTS. "The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, And horse and rider reel. They reel, they roll in clanging lists... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 356 pages
...Eternity, One sabbath deep and wide— A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride .' SIR GALAHAD. MY good blade carves the casques of men,...The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging lists, And... | |
| 1875 - 448 pages
...at all. And her name is Mater Tenebrarum, — Our Lady of Darkness SIR GALAHAD. BY ALFRED TENNYSON. good blade carves the casques of men, My tough -lance...The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging lists, And... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...Bridegroom with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. MY good blade carves the casques of men, lly tough lance tkrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because...The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging lists, And... | |
| Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...His character was a later addition (probablv through church influence) to the old Arthurian legend. MY good blade carves the casques * of men, My tough...shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands t shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. My good blade curves the casques of meii, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the...The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel They reel, they roll in clanging lists, And when... | |
| 1887 - 532 pages
...poetic type, and Tennyson's lines upon Sir Galahad have been often in our mind in describing him : ' My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.' And if we add that he was ' Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love,' we... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 420 pages
...for laurels, with helmet and breastplate and lance in rest, can the true knight exultingly exclaim, "My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure ;" but wherever man meets man, wherever there is a prize to be won, a goal to be reached. Wealth, and... | |
| James Hamblin Smith - 1876 - 184 pages
...an action. They are introduced by Because, Since, For, As, That. They have always the Indicative : My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. — Tennyson. As he was ambitious, I slew him. — Shakespeare. I am right glad that he's so out of... | |
| Mary Neville - 1876 - 308 pages
...him till the shades of evening began to descend, and the Parade was wholly deserted. CHAPTER XI. " My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sore, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." TENNYSON. " IT would be the... | |
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