The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson: The princess ; MaudHenry S. King, 1875 - English poetry |
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ALFRED TENNYSON answer'd Arac arms ask'd babe ballad bassoon beat beauty betwixt Blanche blow bow'd breathe brother brows call'd cataract cheek child clash'd Crown 8vo Cyril dark dead dear death dream dropt dying echoes eyes face fair fall'n fancy father Fcap fear feet fell fight Florian flying gemlike girl hall hand happy day head hear heard heart Heaven king Lady Psyche land light Lilia lily lips live look'd lord maiden maids Maud Melissa MONODRAMA morning mother moved night noble o'er ourself passionate peace Poems poison'd Prince Princess Princess Ida rode roll'd rose sang seem'd shadow shame shining smile song SONNETS soul spake speak spoke star stept stood strange sweet talk'd tender thee things thou thought thro TIMOLEON touch'd turn'd VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ verse vext voice wild Winter's Tale woman
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Page 69 - 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.
Page 65 - THE splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 49 - Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon ; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon : Sleep, my little one, sleep, my...
Page 133 - Ask me no more. Ask me no more : what answer should I give ? I love not hollow cheek or faded eye : Yet, O my friend, I will not have thee die ! Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live ; Ask me no more.
Page 142 - ... a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake : So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me?
Page 233 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee: Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us, What and where they be.
Page 115 - Took the face-cloth from the face; Yet she neither moved nor wept. Rose a nurse of ninety years, Set his child upon her knee — Like summer tempest came her tears — " Sweet my child, I live for thee.
Page 218 - 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 165 - Perfectly beautiful: let it be granted her: where is the fault? All that I saw (for her eyes were downcast, not to be seen) Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more; nothing more, if it had not been For a chance of travel, a paleness, an hour's defect of the rose, Or an underlip, you may call it a little too ripe, too full, Or the least little delicate aquiline curve in a sensitive nose, From which I escaped heart-free, with the least little touch of spleen.