Arthur's knights: an adventure from the legend of the SangraleR. & R. Clark, 1858 - 108 Seiten |
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adventures afar amid armour art thou Arthur beauty beneath blest Bors de Ganis brave Sir breeze bright brother calm Camelot castle champions chapel chivalry dark dawn desert shore door drooping earthly errant knight evil Fair Elene fallow deer fell forest Garlion Gawain gazed gentle gleamed glided glittering glorious glory glowing golden grey haunted heart heaven Holy Grale King Arthur King Pelles ladies ladye Lancelot du Lac land light lonely maiden maimed king morning mountain neath o'er palace peace Pellionor quest rest ride rode rose sails samnite Sangrale seemed shadows shining ship shone shore side silver singing Sir Bors Sir Galahad Sir Hector Sir Lancelot Sir Percevale slain solemn steed stood strange strife sweet sword thee thou wert throng toil tomb towers vision voices wandered warrior waves weary ween whirling white knights wild wondrous wood wound
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Seite 108 - And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword. And thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights. And thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Seite 108 - that Sir Lancelot, there thou liest, thou wert never matched of none earthly knight's hands. And thou wert the courtliest knight that ever bare shield ; and thou wert the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrode horse ; and thou wert the truest lover, of a sinful man, that ever loved woman ; and thou wert the kindest man that ever stroke with...
Seite 105 - And all my great deeds of arms that I have done, I did for the most part for the queen's sake, and for her sake would I do battle were it right or wrong; and never did I battle all only for God's sake, but for to win worship and to cause me to be the better beloved, and little or nought I thanked God of it. Then Sir Launcelot said: I pray you counsel me.
Seite 108 - thou wert head of all Christian knights."—" And now, I dare say," said Sir Bors, " that Sir Lancelot, there thou liest, thou wert never matched of none earthly knight's hands. And thou wert the courtliest knight that ever bare shield ; and thou wert the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrode horse ; and thou wert the truest lover, of...
Seite 105 - And the queen and her ladies all said that he resembled much unto his father; and he was seemly and demure as a dove, with all manner of good features, that in the whole world men might not find his match. And King Arthur said, "God make him a good man, for beauty faileth him not, as any that liveth.
Seite 107 - Launcelot went and took his horse, and rode all day and all that night in a forest, weeping ; and at the last he was aware of a hermitage, and a chapel that stood between two cliffs, and then he heard a little bell ring to mass, and thither he rode, and alighted, and tied his horse to the gate, and heard mass. And he that sung the mass was the Bishop of Canterbury; both the Bishop and Sir Bedivere knew Sir Launcelot, and they spake together after mass.
Seite 107 - ... horse to the gate, and heard masse ; and he that sung the masse was the bishop of Canterbury. Both the bishop and sir Bedivere knew sir Launcelot, and they spake together after masse ; but when sir Bedivere had told him his tale all whole...
Seite 41 - The enchanted lake doth lie ; And there the fairy palace stands, Where all my youth went by. Beneath the towers, all the day, We heard the water swell ; Sometimes from very far away Sounds of the real world fell : The trumpet proud, or the bugle gay, Or the sound of a chapel bell.
Seite 43 - I will praise the sea, While through the darkening waves our vessel sails, That break in moonlit sparkles on our lee. Doth it not mirror still the heavenly sky, Undimmed by shadows of a changeful world ; Are not its waves, in glorious unity, Lulled to a child-like rest, or in...
Seite 105 - And then hee told there that good man all his life, and how hee had loved a queene immeasurably many yeares, "and all the great deeds of armes that I have done, I did the most part for the queenes sake, and for her sake would I doe battaile, were it right or wrong, and never did I battaile all onely for God's sake, but for to winne worship, and to cause mee to bee the better beloved, and little or nought I thanked God of it.