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Page 5
When my passion seeks Pleasance in love - sighs She , looking thro ' and thro '
me Thoroughly to undo me , Smiling , never speaks : So innocent - arch , so
cunning - simple , From beneath her gather ' d wimple Glancing with black -
beaded ...
When my passion seeks Pleasance in love - sighs She , looking thro ' and thro '
me Thoroughly to undo me , Smiling , never speaks : So innocent - arch , so
cunning - simple , From beneath her gather ' d wimple Glancing with black -
beaded ...
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To read those laws ; an accent very low In blandishment , but a most silver flow Of
subtle - paced counsel in distress , Right to the heart and brain , tho ' undescried ,
Winning its way with extreme gentleness Thro ' all the outworks of suspicious ...
To read those laws ; an accent very low In blandishment , but a most silver flow Of
subtle - paced counsel in distress , Right to the heart and brain , tho ' undescried ,
Winning its way with extreme gentleness Thro ' all the outworks of suspicious ...
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... 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 shall Falsehood die , Shot thro ' and thro ' with cunning words
.
... 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 shall Falsehood die , Shot thro ' and thro ' with cunning words
.
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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 ...
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... golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid . Anight my shallop , rustling thro ' The
low and bloomed foliage , drove The fragrant , glistening deeps , and clove The
citron - shadows in the blue : By garden porches on the brim , The costly doors 02
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... golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid . Anight my shallop , rustling thro ' The
low and bloomed foliage , drove The fragrant , glistening deeps , and clove The
citron - shadows in the blue : By garden porches on the brim , The costly doors 02
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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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