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... DORA . 214 AUDLEY COURT 221 WALKING TO THE MAIL 225 EDWIN MORRIS ; OR , THE LAKE 230 ST . SIMEON STYLITES 236 THE TALKING OAK . 245 LOVE AND DUTY THE GOLDEN YEAR . ULYSSES LOCKSLEY HALL GODIVA 258 262 265 268 285 289 THE TWO VOICES THE ...
... DORA . 214 AUDLEY COURT 221 WALKING TO THE MAIL 225 EDWIN MORRIS ; OR , THE LAKE 230 ST . SIMEON STYLITES 236 THE TALKING OAK . 245 LOVE AND DUTY THE GOLDEN YEAR . ULYSSES LOCKSLEY HALL GODIVA 258 262 265 268 285 289 THE TWO VOICES THE ...
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... beheld her ere she knew my heart , My first , last love ; the idol of my youth , The darling of my manhood , and , alas ! Now the most blessed memory of mine age . DORA . WITH farmer Allan at the farm abode William OR , THE PICTURES . 213.
... beheld her ere she knew my heart , My first , last love ; the idol of my youth , The darling of my manhood , and , alas ! Now the most blessed memory of mine age . DORA . WITH farmer Allan at the farm abode William OR , THE PICTURES . 213.
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Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. DORA . WITH farmer Allan at the farm abode William and Dora . William was his son , And she his niece . He often look'd at them , And often thought " I'll make them man and wife . ” Now Dora felt her ...
Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. DORA . WITH farmer Allan at the farm abode William and Dora . William was his son , And she his niece . He often look'd at them , And often thought " I'll make them man and wife . ” Now Dora felt her ...
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... Dora : take her for your wife ; For I have wish'd this marriage , night and day , وو For many years . But William answer'd short ; " I cannot marry Dora ; by my life , I will not marry Dora . " Then the old man Was wroth , and doubled ...
... Dora : take her for your wife ; For I have wish'd this marriage , night and day , وو For many years . But William answer'd short ; " I cannot marry Dora ; by my life , I will not marry Dora . " Then the old man Was wroth , and doubled ...
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... Dora went to Mary . Mary sat And look'd with tears upon her boy , and thought Hard things of Dora . Dora came and said : " I have obey'd my uncle until now , And I have sinn'd , for it was all thro ' me This evil came on William at the ...
... Dora went to Mary . Mary sat And look'd with tears upon her boy , and thought Hard things of Dora . Dora came and said : " I have obey'd my uncle until now , And I have sinn'd , for it was all thro ' me This evil came on William at the ...
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answer'd Aroer beneath blow breath brow Camelot cheek cloud dark dead Dear mother Ida death deep dipt door Dora dreams earth EDWIN MORRIS Eleänore Enone evermore Excalibur eyes face faint fair fall floating flowers folds gold dagger golden prime grave green hand happy harken ere Haroun Alraschid hath hear heard heart Heaven hills hour King King Arthur kiss kiss'd Lady of Shalott land last embrace Let them rave light lips live Locksley Hall look look'd Lord measured words mind moon morn move never night o'er Oriana Queen roll'd rose round saw thro scorn seem'd shadow silver SIMEON STYLITES sing Sir Bedivere sleep slowly smile song soul sound spake speak spirit stars stept stood summer sweet tears thee thine things thou art thought thro turn'd unto voice weary weep wild wind words yonder
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Page 11 - He cometh not,' she said ; She said, ' I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead...
Page 189 - To whom replied King Arthur, faint and pale: "Thou hast...
Page 275 - I triumph'd, ere my passion sweeping thro' me left me dry, Left me with the palsied heart, and left me with the jaundiced eye ; Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the...
Page 263 - Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.
Page 263 - Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Page 66 - The knights come riding two and two: She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott. But in her web she still delights To weave the mirror's magic sights, For often thro' the silent nights A funeral, with plumes and lights, And music, went to Camelot: Or when the moon was overhead, Came two young lovers lately wed: 'I am half sick of shadows,
Page 171 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose. The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent...
Page 192 - For thou, the latest-left of all my knights, In whom should meet the offices of all, Thou wouldst betray me for the precious hilt; Either from lust of gold, or like a girl Valuing the giddy pleasure of the eyes. Yet, for a man may fail in duty twice, And the third time may prosper, get thee hence: But, if thou spare to fling Excalibur, I will arise and slay thee with my hands.
Page 114 - With shadow-streaks of rain. And one, the reapers at their sultry toil. In front they bound the sheaves. Behind Were realms of upland, prodigal in oil, And hoary to the wind.
Page 191 - King Arthur's sword, Excalibur, Wrought by the lonely maiden of the Lake. Nine years she wrought it, sitting in the deeps Upon the hidden bases of the hills.