Ulysses (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, ...
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, ...
O Love, Love, Love! O withering might! O sun, that from thy noonday height Shudderest when I strain my sight, ...
I. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six ...
Dedication These to His Memory--since he held them dear, Perchance as finding there unconsciously Some image of himself--I dedicate, I ...
Of old sat Freedom on the heights, The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights: She ...
O Sorrow, cruel fellowship, O Priestess in the vaults of Death, O sweet and bitter in a breath, What whispers ...
I Airy, Fairy Lilian, Flitting, fairy Lilian, When I ask her if she love me, Claps her tiny hands above ...
Where Claribel low-lieth The breezes pause and die, Letting the rose-leaves fall: But the solemn oak-tree sigheth, Thick-leaved, ambrosial, With ...
By night we linger'd on the lawn, For underfoot the herb was dry; And genial warmth; and o'er the sky ...
Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height: What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang) In height and cold, ...
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When ...
I. And Willy, my eldest-born, is gone, you say, little Anne? Ruddy and white, and strong on his legs, he ...
Birds' love and birds' song Flying here and there, Birds' songand birds' love And you with gold for hair! Birds' ...
Of old sat Freedom on the heights, The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights: She ...
Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, ...
Roman Virgil, thou that singest Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire, Ilion falling, Rome arising, wars, and filial faith, and ...
By an Evolutionist The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man ...
O mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies, O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name ...
To-night ungather'd let us leave This laurel, let this holly stand: We live within the stranger's land, And strangely falls ...
The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the ...
Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea, Thy tribute wave deliver: No more by thee my steps shall be, For ...
Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot In that first war, and had his realm restored But rendered ...
Beautiful city Beautiful city, the centre and crater of European confusion, O you with your passionate shriek for the rights ...
Still on the tower stood the vane, A black yew gloomed the stagnant air, I peered athwart the chancel pane ...
That story which the bold Sir Bedivere, First made and latest left of all the knights, Told, when the man ...
Once more the gate behind me falls; Once more before my face I see the moulder'd Abbey-walls, That stand within ...
Where Claribel low-lieth The breezes pause and die, Letting the rose-leaves fall: But the solemn oak-tree sigheth, Thick-leaved, ambrosial, With ...
THE groundflame of the crocus breaks the mould, Fair Spring slides hither o'er the Southern sea, Wavers on her thin ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again, So loud with voices of the birds, So thick with lowings of the herds, ...
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