Three Aspects of the Late Alfred, Lord TennysonMarsden, 1901 - 144 sivua |
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Three Aspects of the Late Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Classic Reprint) John Murray Moore Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2018 |
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A. C. Swinburne Alfred Tennyson Anglo-Saxon Arthur Hallam Battle of Alma beautiful Bible bird Britain Byron called colonial Daughter dead death deeds Dora England English Idylls Enoch Arden Euphuism expression eyes F. D. Maurice faith farmer father favourite feel Flag of England flower freedom genius give Gladstone grand Hallam heart Heaven King land language Laureate Laureate's Lincolnshire lines living Locksley Hall Locksley Hall Sixty Lord Tennyson Maud Memoriam moral National Poet Nature Nature's never night niver noble passion patriotism peace Poet of Humanity poet's poetic poetry political poor popular Princess proputty Queen race round Sea-Dreams Shakspere Shelley Somersby song sonnet soul spirit sweet sympathy Tenny Tennyson's poems thou thought tion touch true truth utter verse Victorian Era voice W. E. Henley whole wife William words Wordsworth wrote Zealand
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Sivu 19 - To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. "An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. "He dried his wings: like gauze they grew: Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
Sivu 37 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid.
Sivu 80 - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Sivu 51 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent...
Sivu 30 - ... and the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue, which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew of music so delicate, soft, and intense, it was felt like an odour within the sense...
Sivu 16 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Sivu 56 - SEA-KINGS' daughter from over the sea, Alexandra ! Saxon and Norman and Dane are we, But all of us Danes in our welcome of thee, Alexandra ! Welcome her, thunders of fort and of fleet ! Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street ! Welcome her, all things youthful and sweet, Scatter the blossom under her feet ! Break, happy land, into earlier flowers ! Make music...
Sivu 35 - They moved in tracks of shining white; And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire — Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Sivu 29 - HE clasps the crag with crooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Sivu 36 - This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets...