Tennyson's Idylls of the King: SelectionsD.C. Heath, 1904 - 191 Seiten |
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Tennyson's Idylls of the King (Selections) Alfred Tennyson,Arthur Beatty Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
answer'd arms Arthur's hall ask'd Astolat battle brake brother call'd Camelot child Coming of Arthur cried crown damsel dead death diamond Dubric Enid Excalibur eyes face fair Fair lord father flash'd flower Gareth and Lynette Gawain Geraint glory Gorloïs Guinevere hand hath heard heart heathen heaven Holy Grail horse Idylls joust King Arthur kitchen-knave knave knight Lady lance Lancelot and Elaine Lavaine Leodogran lily maid lines live lord Lord Tennyson maiden Malory Mark of Cornwall Merlin Modred noble o'er once Passing of Arthur past poem Queen quest realm rode rose Round Table saying seem'd shame shield Sir Bedivere Sir Bors Sir Gareth Sir Kay Sir Lancelot Sir Percivale spake speak star stood story sware sweet sword Table Round Tennyson thee thine thou art thou hast thro turn'd Uther vision voice wandering fires word
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 159 - 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.
Seite 156 - What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: "I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.
Seite 155 - What harm, undone ? Deep harm to disobey, Seeing obedience is the bond of rule. Were it well to obey then, if a king demand An act unprofitable, against himself? The King is sick, and knows not what he does. What record, or what relic of my lord, Should be to aftertime, but empty breath And rumors of a doubt?
Seite 159 - And to the barge they came. There those three Queens Put forth their hands, and took the King, and wept. But she, that rose the tallest of them all And fairest, laid his head upon her lap, And loosed the...
Seite 160 - But now the whole Round Table is dissolved Which was an image of the mighty world; And I, the last, go forth companionless, And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
Seite 155 - This is a shameful thing for men to lie. Yet now, I charge thee, quickly go again As thou art lief and dear, and do the thing I bade thee, watch, and lightly bring me word.
Seite xiv - 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, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her...
Seite 189 - And more, my son! for more than once when I Sat all alone, revolving in myself The word that is the symbol of myself, The mortal limit of the Self was loosed, And past into the Nameless, as a cloud Melts into Heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — and yet no shade of doubt, But utter clearness, and thro...
Seite 153 - 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, Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, Holding the sword — and how I...
Seite 124 - And four great zones of sculpture, set betwixt With many a mystic symbol, gird the hall : And in the lowest beasts are slaying men, And in the second men are slaying beasts, And on the third are warriors, perfect men, And on the fourth are men with growing wings...