The Ringlet (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
'Your ringlets, your ringlets, That look so golden-gay, If you will give me one, but one, To kiss it night ...
'Your ringlets, your ringlets, That look so golden-gay, If you will give me one, but one, To kiss it night ...
Our enemies have fall'n, have fall'n: the seed, The little seed they laugh'd at in the dark, Has risen and ...
How fares it with the happy dead? For here the man is more and more; But he forgets the days ...
What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day? Let me fly, says little birdie, Mother, let ...
Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea; The cloud may stoop from heaven and take the shape, ...
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills ...
'Te somnia nostra reducunt.' OVID. And ask ye why these sad tears stream? Why these wan eyes are dim with ...
You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease, Within this region I subsist, Whose spirits falter in the mist, And ...
O living will that shalt endure When all that seems shall suffer shock, Rise in the spiritual rock, Flow thro' ...
The path by which we twain did go, Which led by tracts that pleased us well, Thro' four sweet years ...
Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the under-lying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots ...
Old warder of these buried bones, And answering now my random stroke With fruitful cloud and living smoke, Dark yew, ...
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 ...
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