The Holy Grail and Other PoemsFields, Osgood & Company, 1870 - 202 pages |
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... never have I known the world without , Nor ever strayed beyond the pale : but thee , When first thou camest , such a courtesy Spake thro ' the limbs and in the voice , I knew For one of those who eat in Arthur's hall ; For good ye are ...
... never have I known the world without , Nor ever strayed beyond the pale : but thee , When first thou camest , such a courtesy Spake thro ' the limbs and in the voice , I knew For one of those who eat in Arthur's hall ; For good ye are ...
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... never maiden glow'd , But that was in her earlier maidenhood , With such a fervent flame of human love , Which being rudely blunted glanced and shot . Only to holy things : to prayer and praise She gave herself , to fast and alms ; and ...
... never maiden glow'd , But that was in her earlier maidenhood , With such a fervent flame of human love , Which being rudely blunted glanced and shot . Only to holy things : to prayer and praise She gave herself , to fast and alms ; and ...
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... never harp nor horn , Nor aught we blow with breath , or touch with hand , Was like that music as it came ; and then Stream'd thro ' my cell a cold and silver beam , And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail , Rose - red with beatings ...
... never harp nor horn , Nor aught we blow with breath , or touch with hand , Was like that music as it came ; and then Stream'd thro ' my cell a cold and silver beam , And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail , Rose - red with beatings ...
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... never yet Had Camelot seen the like since Arthur came . And I myself and Galahad , for a strength Was in us from the vision , overthrew So many knights that all the people cried , And almost burst the barriers in their heat , Shouting ...
... never yet Had Camelot seen the like since Arthur came . And I myself and Galahad , for a strength Was in us from the vision , overthrew So many knights that all the people cried , And almost burst the barriers in their heat , Shouting ...
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... late - shown prowess in the lists , How my strong lance had beaten down the knights , So many and famous names ; and never yet Had heaven appear'd so blue , nor earth so green , For all my blood danced in me , and I 56 THE HOLY GRAIL .
... late - shown prowess in the lists , How my strong lance had beaten down the knights , So many and famous names ; and never yet Had heaven appear'd so blue , nor earth so green , For all my blood danced in me , and I 56 THE HOLY GRAIL .
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answer'd arms art thou ask'd beast beat beauty behold blood bold Sir Bedivere brake brother Caerleon call'd Camelot child circlet cloud cried crown'd damsels dark dead dearest dreams drew Dubric earth Ettarre eyes face fail'd feast fire flash'd follow'd Galahad Gawain glanced glory Gods golden Gorloïs Guinevere hall hand hath heard heart heathen heaven Holy Grail horse jousts Julian King Arthur King Uther knew knighthood knights lady Lancelot land Leodogran light Lionel look'd Lord LUCRETIUS luvv Lyonesse maiden Merlin merry maidens Modred moon munny noble o'er once pass Percivale phantom proputty Queen quest return'd rode rose seem'd seen Sir Bors Sir Pelleas slay spake stars stood strange sware sweet sword Table Round thee thine thou art thou hast thought thro thyself turn'd Uther Vext vision voice wail walls wind
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Page 144 - If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
Page 143 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Page 141 - Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right 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.
Page 165 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 143 - Then loudly cried the bold Sir Bedivere, "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.
Page 130 - 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...
Page 135 - And if indeed I cast the brand away, Surely a precious thing, one worthy note, Should thus be lost for ever from the earth, Which might have pleased the eyes of many men.
Page 138 - The great brand Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon, 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...
Page 145 - 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.
Page 142 - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, 'Place me in the barge,