Poems, Volume 1Edward Moxon, 1855 - 376 pages |
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... I were dead ! " All day within the dreamy house , The doors upon their hinges creak'd ; The blue fly sung in the pane ; the mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd , Or from the crevice peer'd about . Old faces glimmer'd MARIANA . 11.
... I were dead ! " All day within the dreamy house , The doors upon their hinges creak'd ; The blue fly sung in the pane ; the mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd , Or from the crevice peer'd about . Old faces glimmer'd MARIANA . 11.
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Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. Or from the crevice peer'd about . Old faces glimmer'd thro ' the doors , Old footsteps trod the upper floors , Old voices called her from without . She only said , " My life is dreary , He cometh not ...
Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. Or from the crevice peer'd about . Old faces glimmer'd thro ' the doors , Old footsteps trod the upper floors , Old voices called her from without . She only said , " My life is dreary , He cometh not ...
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... face , While his locks a - dropping twined Round thy neck in subtle ring Make a carcanet of rays , And ye talk together still , In the language wherewith Spring Letters cowslips on the hill ? Hence that look and smile of thine ...
... face , While his locks a - dropping twined Round thy neck in subtle ring Make a carcanet of rays , And ye talk together still , In the language wherewith Spring Letters cowslips on the hill ? Hence that look and smile of thine ...
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... faces , rounded arms , and bosoms prest To little harps of gold ; and while they mused , Whispering to each other half in fear , Shrill music reach'd them on the middle sea . Whither away , whither away , whither away more . ? fly no ...
... faces , rounded arms , and bosoms prest To little harps of gold ; and while they mused , Whispering to each other half in fear , Shrill music reach'd them on the middle sea . Whither away , whither away , whither away more . ? fly no ...
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... face , Oriana . They should have stabb'd me where I lay , Oriana ! How could I rise and come away , Oriana ? How could I look upon the day ? They should have stabb'd me where I lay , Oriana- They should have trod me into clay , Oriana ...
... face , Oriana . They should have stabb'd me where I lay , Oriana ! How could I rise and come away , Oriana ? How could I look upon the day ? They should have stabb'd me where I lay , Oriana- They should have trod me into clay , Oriana ...
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Page 148 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Page 142 - In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 12 - He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Page 320 - AND on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old...
Page 270 - Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions with a mute observance hung. And I said, " My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to me, Trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee.
Page 269 - In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish 'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 266 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. "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 70 - In the stormy east-wind straining, The pale yellow woods were waning, The broad stream in his banks complaining, Heavily the low sky raining Over...
Page 277 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do.
Page 32 - Over its grave i' the earth so chilly ; Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. ii The air is damp, and hush'd, and close, As a sick man's room when he taketh repose An hour before death ; My very heart faints and my whole soul grieves At the moist rich smell of the rotting leaves, And the breath Of the fading edges of box beneath, And the year's last rose. Heavily hangs the broad...