Mariana (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
WITH BLACKEST moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held ...
WITH BLACKEST moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held ...
Sir Walter Vivian all a summer's day Gave his broad lawns until the set of sun Up to the people: ...
Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn: Leave me here, and when you want ...
Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, We stumbled on a stationary voice, And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from ...
"Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they ...
'There sinks the nebulous star we call the Sun, If that hypothesis of theirs be sound' Said Ida; 'let us ...
From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called ...
The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the ...
Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save ...
My dream had never died or lived again. As in some mystic middle state I lay; Seeing I saw not, ...
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never ...
A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face, Of temper amorous, as the first of May, With lengths of ...
Is it, then, regret for buried time That keenlier in sweet April wakes, And meets the year, and gives and ...
Once more the gate behind me falls; Once more before my face I see the moulder'd Abbey-walls, That stand within ...
MY father left a park to me, But it is wild and barren, A garden too with scarce a tree, ...
So closed our tale, of which I give you all The random scheme as wildly as it rose: The words ...
By an Evolutionist The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man ...
O loyal to the royal in thyself, And loyal to thy land, as this to thee-- Bear witness, that rememberable ...
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never ...
O Love, Love, Love! O withering might! O sun, that from thy noonday height Shudderest when I strain my sight, ...
I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, "O Soul, make merry ...
A city clerk, but gently born and bred; His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child-- One babe was theirs, a ...
Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, found Her master cold; for when the morning flush Of passion and the first embrace had ...
At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
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