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With the mermaids in and out of the rocks , Dressing their hair with the white sea -
flower ; And holding them back by their flowing locks I would kiss them often
under the sea , And kiss them again till they kiss ' d me Laughingly , laughingly ...
With the mermaids in and out of the rocks , Dressing their hair with the white sea -
flower ; And holding them back by their flowing locks I would kiss them often
under the sea , And kiss them again till they kiss ' d me Laughingly , laughingly ...
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Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) Then leaping out upon them unseen I would kiss
them often under the sea , And kiss them again till they kiss ' d me Laughingly ,
laughingly . Oh ! what a happy life were mine Under the hollow - hung ocean
green !
Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) Then leaping out upon them unseen I would kiss
them often under the sea , And kiss them again till they kiss ' d me Laughingly ,
laughingly . Oh ! what a happy life were mine Under the hollow - hung ocean
green !
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I have been to blame . Kiss me , my children . ” Then they clung about The old
man ' s neck , and kiss ' d him many times . And all the man was broken with
remorse ; And all his love came back a hundredfold ; And for three hours he sobb
' d o ...
I have been to blame . Kiss me , my children . ” Then they clung about The old
man ' s neck , and kiss ' d him many times . And all the man was broken with
remorse ; And all his love came back a hundredfold ; And for three hours he sobb
' d o ...
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O yes , she wander ' d round and round These knotted knees of mine , And found
, and kiss ' d the name she found , And sweetly murmur ' d thine . XLI . “ A
teardrop trembled from its source , And down my surface crept . My sense of
touch is ...
O yes , she wander ' d round and round These knotted knees of mine , And found
, and kiss ' d the name she found , And sweetly murmur ' d thine . XLI . “ A
teardrop trembled from its source , And down my surface crept . My sense of
touch is ...
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O kiss him once for me . LXI . “ O kiss him twice and thrice for me , That have no
lips to kiss , For never yet was oak on lea Shall grow so fair as this . ” LXII , Step
deeper yet in herb and fern , Look further thro ' the chace , Spread upward till thy
...
O kiss him once for me . LXI . “ O kiss him twice and thrice for me , That have no
lips to kiss , For never yet was oak on lea Shall grow so fair as this . ” LXII , Step
deeper yet in herb and fern , Look further thro ' the chace , Spread upward till thy
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Page 72 - There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine...
Page 157 - A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land : far off, three mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. The charmed sunset linger'd low adown In the red West : thro...
Page 66 - Did she look to Camelot. And at the closing of the day She loosed the chain, and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away, The Lady of ShalotL Lying, robed in snowy white That loosely flew to left and right— The leaves upon her falling light— Thro...
Page 162 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence, ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease ! 5.
Page 86 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 10 - WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.
Page 65 - She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces thro' the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She look'd down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide ; The mirror crack'd from side to side ; ' The curse is come upon me,
Page 91 - I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks, Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books — Fool, again the dream, the fancy!
Page 193 - But though his eyes are waxing dim, And though his foes speak ill of him, He was a friend to me. Old year, you shall not die ; We did so laugh and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you, Old year, if you must die.
Page 160 - And thro' the mountain-walls A rolling organ-harmony Swells up, and shakes and falls. Then move the trees, the copses nod, Wings flutter, voices hover clear : " O just and faithful knight of God ! Ride on ! the prize is near.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Poems Poems, Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) |
| Author | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) |
| Edition | 3 |
| Published | 1845 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 25 Sep 2006 |
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