Tennyson: A Critical StudyBlackie & son, limited, 1899 - 234 Seiten |
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admirable Alfred Tennyson answer artist Astolat barget beauty Becket blank verse brother canto comes criticism damsel dead death doubt earth Elaine English Enone eyes fair maiden faith feel flower Guinevere Hallam happy heart hermit honour human Idylls king Arthur Lady Lady of Shalott legend lines living Locksley Hall lord Sir Launcelot Lotos-Eaters lover maiden of Astolat Malory matter of Britain Maud Memoriam metre mind moral narrative nature never noble knight passage passion perhaps poem poet poet's poetical poetry Princess Queen quote red sleeve rhymes scarcely seems sense shield Sir Bors Sir Ector Sir Gawaine Sir Kay Sir Launce Sir Launcelot Sir Lavaine smote song soul spirit stanzas story Struldbrugs style tell Tenny Tennyson thee things thou thought Thro tion truth Ulysses unto utterance verse Virgil voice volume whole woman words written
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Seite 43 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Seite 121 - SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me. And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark: And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...
Seite 73 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Seite 114 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho...
Seite 133 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Seite 57 - She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.
Seite 103 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Seite 120 - The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, ' My life is dreary, He cometh not...
Seite 42 - My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. Before he mounts the hill, I know He cometh quickly: from below Sweet gales, as from deep gardens, blow Before him, striking on my brow. In my dry brain my spirit soon, Down-deepening from swoon to swoon, Faints like a dazzled morning moon.
Seite 83 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice, ' Believe no more,' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd,