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THE PALACE OF ART . . . LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE . THE MAY QUEEN . . .
NEW YEAR ' S EVE . . CONCLUSION ; . . THE LOTOS - EATERS . . . A DREAM
OF FAIR WOMEN . MARGARET . . . . THE BLACKBIRI . . . THE DEATH OF THE ...
THE PALACE OF ART . . . LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE . THE MAY QUEEN . . .
NEW YEAR ' S EVE . . CONCLUSION ; . . THE LOTOS - EATERS . . . A DREAM
OF FAIR WOMEN . MARGARET . . . . THE BLACKBIRI . . . THE DEATH OF THE ...
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Low - cowering shall the Sophist sit ; Falsehood shall bare her plaited brow : Fair
- fronted Truth shall droop not now With shrilling shafts of subtle wit . Nor martyr -
flames , nor trenchant swords Can do away that ancient lie ; A gentler death ...
Low - cowering shall the Sophist sit ; Falsehood shall bare her plaited brow : Fair
- fronted Truth shall droop not now With shrilling shafts of subtle wit . Nor martyr -
flames , nor trenchant swords Can do away that ancient lie ; A gentler death ...
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Far off , and where the lemon grove In closest coverture upsprung , The living airs
of middle night Died round the bulbul as he sung ; Not he : but something which
possess ' d The darkness of the world , delight , Life , anguish , death , immortal ...
Far off , and where the lemon grove In closest coverture upsprung , The living airs
of middle night Died round the bulbul as he sung ; Not he : but something which
possess ' d The darkness of the world , delight , Life , anguish , death , immortal ...
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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 smells of the rotting leaves , And the breath of the fading edges of ...
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 smells of the rotting leaves , And the breath of the fading edges of ...
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He saw thro ' life and death , thro ' good and ill , He saw thro ' his own soul . The
marvel of the everlasting will , An open scroll , Before him lay : with echoing feet
he threaded The secretest walks of fame : The viewless arrows of his thoughts ...
He saw thro ' life and death , thro ' good and ill , He saw thro ' his own soul . The
marvel of the everlasting will , An open scroll , Before him lay : with echoing feet
he threaded The secretest walks of fame : The viewless arrows of his thoughts ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Poems |
| Author | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson |
| Publisher | C. Kegan Paul, 1878 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 23 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 379 pages |
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