In Memoriam 82: I Wage Not Any Feud With Death (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
I wage not any feud with Death For changes wrought on form and face; No lower life that earth's embrace ...
I wage not any feud with Death For changes wrought on form and face; No lower life that earth's embrace ...
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half ...
Love is and was my Lord and King, And in his presence I attend To hear the tidings of my ...
I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, "O Soul, make merry ...
Fair is her cottage in its place, Where yon broad water sweetly slowly glides. It sees itself from thatch to ...
Morn in the wake of the morning star Came furrowing all the orient into gold. We rose, and each by ...
Live thy life, Young and old, Like yon oak, Bright in spring, Living gold; Summer-rich Then; and then Autumn-changed, Soberer ...
Again at Christmas did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth; The silent snow possess'd the earth, And calmly ...
IT was the time when lilies blow, And clouds are highest up in air, Lord Ronald brought a lily-white doe ...
O, were I loved as I desire to be! What is there in the great sphere of the earth, Or ...
Move eastward, happy earth, and leave Yon orange sunset waning slow: From fringes of the faded eve, O, happy planet, ...
O Sorrow, cruel fellowship, O Priestess in the vaults of Death, O sweet and bitter in a breath, What whispers ...
O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And tell her, tell her, ...
Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, found Her master cold; for when the morning flush Of passion and the first embrace had ...
IN her ear he whispers gaily, 'If my heart by signs can tell, Maiden, I have watch'd thee daily, And ...
Faint as a climate-changing bird that flies All night across the darkness, and at dawn Falls on the threshold of ...
Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, ...
Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chill! Late, late, so late! but we can enter still. Too ...
Life and Thought have gone away Side by side, Leaving door and windows wide. Careless tenants they! All within is ...
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child; And she was the fairest of all ...
All along the valley, stream that flashest white, Deepening thy voice with the deepening of the night, All along the ...
At break of day the College Portress came: She brought us Academic silks, in hue The lilac, with a silken ...
O living will that shalt endure When all that seems shall suffer shock, Rise in the spiritual rock, Flow thro' ...
O loyal to the royal in thyself, And loyal to thy land, as this to thee-- Bear witness, that rememberable ...
WITH BLACKEST moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held ...
I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide, As being past away. -Vain sympathies! For backward, Duddon! as I ...
From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called ...
COME down, O maid, from yonder mountain height: What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang), In height and cold, ...
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud; Turn thy wild wheel thro' sunshine, storm, and cloud; Thy wheel ...
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