Idylls of the King: (selections)Silver, Burdett, 1907 - 233 Seiten |
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Alfred Tennyson allegory answer'd arms Arthur Hallam Arthur's hall Arthurian ask'd Astolat bards battle beautiful Bellicent call'd Camelot child Coming of Arthur Compare cried damsel dead death diamond Dubric epic Excalibur eyes face fair Fair lord father flower Gareth and Lynette Gawain Geraint and Enid glory Gorloïs Guinevere hand hath heard heart heathen heaven hence Holy horse Idylls jousts King Arthur kitchen-knave knave knight Lady Lake Lancelot and Elaine Latin Lavaine Leodogran lily maid Line live lord maiden Malory Malory's Merlin Modred noble Note Passing of Arthur poem poet poetry Queen quest romances rose Round Table seem'd shame shield Sir Bedivere Sir Gareth Sir Kay Sir King Sir Lancelot song soul spake star story sweet sword Table Round Tennyson thee thine thou art thou hast thro turn'd Uther vext voice vows word
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Seite 176 - So said he, and the barge with oar and sail Moved from the brink, like some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs. Long stood Sir Bedivere Revolving many memories, till the hull Look'd one black dot against the verge of dawn, And on the mere the wailing died away. But when that moan had past for evermore, The stillness of the dead world's winter dawn Amazed him, and he groan'd, "The King is gone.
Seite 175 - Ah! my Lord Arthur, whither shall I go? Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes? For now I see the true old times are dead, When every morning brought a noble chance, And every chance brought out a noble knight.
Seite 174 - Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream — by these...
Seite 169 - Excalibur, Which was my pride; for thou rememberest how In those old days, one summer noon, an arm Rose up from out the bosom of the lake...
Seite 168 - 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.
Seite 193 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ...
Seite 175 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Seite 172 - And flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn, Seen where the moving isles of winter shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So...
Seite 173 - Larger than human on the frozen hills. He heard the deep behind him, and a cry Before. His own thought drove him like a goad. Dry...
Seite 176 - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seest — if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) — To the island-valley of Avilion ; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.