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From the bank and from the river
He flashed into the crystal mirror,
"Tirra lirra," by the river
Sang Sir Lancelot.
The Lady of Shalott (1832)
Her manners had not that repose
Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)
Then came your new friend: you began to change—
I saw it and grieved.
The Princess (1847)
You that woo the Voices—tell them "Old Experience is a fool";
Teach your flattered kings that only those who can not read can rule.
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
Love your enemy, bless your haters, said the Greatest of the great;
Christian love among the Churches looked the twin of heathen hate.
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
And others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches,
And most, of sterling worth, is what
Our own experience preaches.
Behold, we know not anything;
I can but trust that good shall fall
At last—far off—at last, to all,
And every winter change to spring.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees.
Ill doom is mine
To war against my people and my knights.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height,
What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang)
In height and cold, the splendour of the hills?
The Princess (1847)
So runs the round of life from hour to hour.
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Red ruin and the breaking-up of all.
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1850)
Home they brought her warrior dead.
The Princess (1847)
Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.
The eternal landscape of the past.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)