Tennyson, His Art and Relation to Modern Life, Volume 10G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 - 516 pages |
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... Guinevere 343 The Passing of Arthur . XI . ENOCH ARDEN AND THE SEA - POETRY XII . AYLMER'S FIELD , SEA DREAMS , THE BROOK XIII . THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES XIV . SPECULATIVE THEOLOGY 355 375 394 • 4.11 · 427 XV . THE NATURE POETRY . 446 ...
... Guinevere 343 The Passing of Arthur . XI . ENOCH ARDEN AND THE SEA - POETRY XII . AYLMER'S FIELD , SEA DREAMS , THE BROOK XIII . THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES XIV . SPECULATIVE THEOLOGY 355 375 394 • 4.11 · 427 XV . THE NATURE POETRY . 446 ...
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... Guinevere is only a charming piece of glittering grace . The Lady of Shalott is a pleasant piece of play with his readers - simplicity in a mask of mysticism . Sir Galahad is graver , but still only an occasional piece , such as a poet ...
... Guinevere is only a charming piece of glittering grace . The Lady of Shalott is a pleasant piece of play with his readers - simplicity in a mask of mysticism . Sir Galahad is graver , but still only an occasional piece , such as a poet ...
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... Guinevere of Romance , Lancelot and the Lady of the Lake , Gawain and Galahad , Percivale and Elaine are unreal shapes ; yet how real they are in a better world ! -The interests of the world we call real fade and die , our children will ...
... Guinevere of Romance , Lancelot and the Lady of the Lake , Gawain and Galahad , Percivale and Elaine are unreal shapes ; yet how real they are in a better world ! -The interests of the world we call real fade and die , our children will ...
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... Guinevere through woods of love and spring . Then in the Morte d'Arthur the story was fitted in 1842 by certain modern touches to modern life , yet these had to be explained by the prologue and epilogue . In that poem itself the tale ...
... Guinevere through woods of love and spring . Then in the Morte d'Arthur the story was fitted in 1842 by certain modern touches to modern life , yet these had to be explained by the prologue and epilogue . In that poem itself the tale ...
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... Guinevere is the G heart , and all we mean by the term . The soul , to do its work , must be knit to the heart in noble marriage - Arthur must be wed to Guinevere . The Knights of the Round Table are the high faculties in man whom the ...
... Guinevere is the G heart , and all we mean by the term . The soul , to do its work , must be knit to the heart in noble marriage - Arthur must be wed to Guinevere . The Knights of the Round Table are the high faculties in man whom the ...
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Page 373 - The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Page 101 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a...
Page 206 - HE maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So HE bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Page 120 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for), but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Page 83 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand; Left on the shore; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Page 371 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 439 - The living soul was flash'd on mine, And mine in this was wound, and whirl'd About empyreal heights of thought, And came on that which is, and caught The deep pulsations of the world, Ionian music measuring out The steps of Time - the shocks of Chance The blows of Death. At length my trance Was cancell'd, stricken thro
Page 242 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee: Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls...
Page 296 - In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. " It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 101 - COME not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by.