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Page 7
... Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity ,
Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood , Revered Isabel , the crown and head ,
The stately flower of female fortitude , Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead .
... Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity ,
Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood , Revered Isabel , the crown and head ,
The stately flower of female fortitude , Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead .
Page 9
... aweary , I would that I were dead ! ” Her tears fell with the dews at even ; Her
tears fell ere the dews were dried ; She could not look on the sweet heaven ,
Either at morn or eventide . After the fitting of the bats , When thickest dark
MARIANA ...
... aweary , I would that I were dead ! ” Her tears fell with the dews at even ; Her
tears fell ere the dews were dried ; She could not look on the sweet heaven ,
Either at morn or eventide . After the fitting of the bats , When thickest dark
MARIANA ...
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Thro ' light and shadow thou dost range , Sudden glances , sweet and strange ,
Delicious spites and darling angers , And airy forms of flitting change . Smiling ,
frowning , evermore , Thou art perfect in love - lore . Revealings deep and clear ...
Thro ' light and shadow thou dost range , Sudden glances , sweet and strange ,
Delicious spites and darling angers , And airy forms of flitting change . Smiling ,
frowning , evermore , Thou art perfect in love - lore . Revealings deep and clear ...
Page 20
A motion from the river won Ridged the smooth level , bearing on My shallop thro
' the star - strown calm , Until another night in night I enter ' d , from the clearer
light , Imbower ' d vaults of pillar ' d palm , Imprisoning sweets , which , as they ...
A motion from the river won Ridged the smooth level , bearing on My shallop thro
' the star - strown calm , Until another night in night I enter ' d , from the clearer
light , Imbower ' d vaults of pillar ' d palm , Imprisoning sweets , which , as they ...
Page 27
In sweet dreams softer than unbroken rest Thou leddest by the hand thine infant
Hope . The eddying of her garments caught from thee The light of thy great
presence ; and the cope Of the half - attain ' d futurity , Tho ' deep not fathomless ,
Was ...
In sweet dreams softer than unbroken rest Thou leddest by the hand thine infant
Hope . The eddying of her garments caught from thee The light of thy great
presence ; and the cope Of the half - attain ' d futurity , Tho ' deep not fathomless ,
Was ...
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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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