Poems, Volumes 1-2 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Ajalon AMPHION answer'd beneath blow bold Sir bore breast breath brow Camelot cheek crag dark dawn DAY-DREAM dead dear death deep dipt Dora dreams earth Edward Gray European flag Excalibur eyes fair fancy flower folded gleams golden hand happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven hour iris changes King Arthur kiss kiss'd Lady Clare Lady of Shalott land light lightly lips live LOCKSLEY HALL long day wanes look look'd LORD OF BURLEIGH LYRICAL MONOLOGUE moon moorland morn move murmur never night o'er Oriana passion Queen ringdove rose round seem'd shade shadow Sir Bedivere SIR GALAHAD sleep slowly song soul sound spake speak spirit stars stept summer sweet tears thee thine things thou art thought thro thy dreams truth turn'd unto Vext voice WATERPROOF'S weeping whisper wild wind wonder words
Popular passages
Page 11 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Page 89 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades ° Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Page 105 - Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battleflags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
Page 104 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 2 - And in the moon athwart the place of tombs, Where lay the mighty bones of ancient men, Old knights, and over them the sea-wind sang Shrill, chill, with flakes of foam. He, stepping down By zig-zag paths, and juts of pointed rock, Came on the shining levels of the lake. There drew he forth the brand Excalibur...
Page 97 - As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.