The Holy Grail and Other PoemsJ.E. Tilton, 1870 - 151 páginas |
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... queen of Orkney , Bellicent , Hath ever like a loyal sister cleaved • To Arthur , — but a son she had not borne . And Uther cast upon her eyes of love : But she , a stainless wife to Gorloïs , So loathed the bright dishonor of his love ...
... queen of Orkney , Bellicent , Hath ever like a loyal sister cleaved • To Arthur , — but a son she had not borne . And Uther cast upon her eyes of love : But she , a stainless wife to Gorloïs , So loathed the bright dishonor of his love ...
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... Queen of Orkney , Bellicent ; Whom as he could , not as he would , the king Made feast for , saying , as they sat at meat , " A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas Ye come from Arthur's court : think ye this king So few his knights ...
... Queen of Orkney , Bellicent ; Whom as he could , not as he would , the king Made feast for , saying , as they sat at meat , " A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas Ye come from Arthur's court : think ye this king So few his knights ...
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... queens , Who stood in silence near his throne , the friends Of Arthur , gazing on him , tall , with bright , Sweet faces , who will help him at his need . " And there I saw mage Merlin , whose vast wit And hundred winters are but as the ...
... queens , Who stood in silence near his throne , the friends Of Arthur , gazing on him , tall , with bright , Sweet faces , who will help him at his need . " And there I saw mage Merlin , whose vast wit And hundred winters are but as the ...
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... Queen made answer , " What know I ? For dark my mother was in eyes and hair , And dark in hair and eyes am I ; and dark Was Gorloïs , yea , and dark was Uther too , Wellnigh to blackness , but this king is fair Beyond the race of ...
... Queen made answer , " What know I ? For dark my mother was in eyes and hair , And dark in hair and eyes am I ; and dark Was Gorloïs , yea , and dark was Uther too , Wellnigh to blackness , but this king is fair Beyond the race of ...
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... Queen ; and watch'd him from the gates : And Lancelot past away among the flowers , ( For then was latter April ) and return'd Among the flowers , in May , with Guinevere . To whom arrived , by Dubric the high saint , Chief of the ...
... Queen ; and watch'd him from the gates : And Lancelot past away among the flowers , ( For then was latter April ) and return'd Among the flowers , in May , with Guinevere . To whom arrived , by Dubric the high saint , Chief of the ...
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Página 67 - 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 Three Queens with crowns of gold - and from them rose A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars...
Página 61 - Confusion, till I know not what I am, Nor whence I am, nor whether I be King. Behold, I seem but King among the dead." Then spake the bold Sir Bedivere: " My King, King everywhere! and so the dead have kings, There also will I worship thee as King. Yet still thy life is whole, and still I live 150 Who love thee; but who hates thee, he that brought The heathen back among us, yonder stands, Modred, unharm'd, the traitor of thine house.
Página 68 - Shot thro' the lists at Camelot, and charged Before the eyes of ladies and of kings. Then loudly cried the bold Sir Bedivere, 'Ah! my Lord Arthur, whither shall I go?
Página 68 - 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. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Página 15 - Rain, rain, and sun ! a rainbow in the sky ! A young man will be wiser by and by ; An old man's wit may wander ere he die. ' " Rain, rain, and sun ! a rainbow on the lea ! And truth is this to me, and that to thee ; And truth or clothed or naked let it be. '"Rain, sun, and rain ! and the free blossom blows : Sun, rain, and sun ! and where is he who knows ? From the great deep to the great deep he goes.
Página 5 - LEODOGRAN, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child ; And she was fairest of all flesh on earth, Guinevere, and in her his one delight.
Página 61 - Rose, and the pale King glanced across the field Of battle: but no man was moving there; Nor any cry of Christian heard thereon, Nor yet of heathen; only the wan wave Brake in among dead faces, to and fro Swaying the helpless hands, and up and down Tumbling the hollow helmets of the fallen, And shivered brands that once had fought with Rome, And rolling far along the gloomy shores The voice of days of old and days to be.
Página 29 - Cover'd, but moving with me night and day, Fainter by day, but always in the night Blood-red, and sliding down the blacken'd marsh Blood-red, and on the naked mountain top Blood-red, and in the sleeping mere below Blood-red. And in the strength of this I rode, Shattering all evil customs everywhere, And past thro...
Página 64 - To whom replied King Arthur, faint and pale: "Thou hast betray'd thy nature and thy name, Not rendering true answer, as beseem'd Thy fealty, nor like a noble knight: For surer sign had follow'd, either hand, Or voice, or else a motion of the mere. 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.
Página 64 - I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag.