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Page 13
... Edged with sharp laughter , cuts atwain · The knots that tangle human creeds ,
The wounding cords that bind and strain The heart until it bleeds , Ray - fringed
eyelids of the morn Roof not a glance so keen as thine : If aught of prophecy be ...
... Edged with sharp laughter , cuts atwain · The knots that tangle human creeds ,
The wounding cords that bind and strain The heart until it bleeds , Ray - fringed
eyelids of the morn Roof not a glance so keen as thine : If aught of prophecy be ...
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Thou art not steep ' d in golden languors , No tranced summer calm is thine , Ever
varying Madeline . Thro ' light and shadow thou dost range , Sudden glances ,
sweet and strange , Delicious spites and darling angers , And airy forms of flitting
...
Thou art not steep ' d in golden languors , No tranced summer calm is thine , Ever
varying Madeline . Thro ' light and shadow thou dost range , Sudden glances ,
sweet and strange , Delicious spites and darling angers , And airy forms of flitting
...
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All the mystery is thine ; Smiling , frowning , evermore , Thou art perfect in love -
lore , Ever varying Madeline . 3 . A subtle , sudden flame , By veering passion
fann ' d , About thee breaks and dances ; When I would kiss thy hand , The flush
of ...
All the mystery is thine ; Smiling , frowning , evermore , Thou art perfect in love -
lore , Ever varying Madeline . 3 . A subtle , sudden flame , By veering passion
fann ' d , About thee breaks and dances ; When I would kiss thy hand , The flush
of ...
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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... For the discovery And newness of thine art so pleased thee , That all which
thou hast drawn of fairest Or boldest since , but lightly weighs With thee unto the
love thou bearest The first - born of thy genius . Artist - ODE TO MEMORY . SONG
.
... For the discovery And newness of thine art so pleased thee , That all which
thou hast drawn of fairest Or boldest since , but lightly weighs With thee unto the
love thou bearest The first - born of thy genius . Artist - ODE TO MEMORY . SONG
.
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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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