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A daughter of the gods, divinely tall,
And most divinely fair.
A Dream of Fair Women (1842)
Our father's dust is left alone
And silent under other snows.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
In statesmanship
To strike too soon is oft to miss the blow.
Queen Mary: A Drama (1876)
O friendship, equal-poised control,
O heart, with kindliest motion warm,
O sacred essence, other form,
O solemn ghost, O crowned soul!
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Silver sails all out of the west
Under the silver moon.
Some, ’tis whisper’d, down in hell
Suffer endless anguish, others in Elysian valleys dwell,
Resting weary limbs at last on beds of asphodel.
The Lotos-Eaters (1832)
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
Better not to be at all
Than not be noble.
The Princess (1847)
In a wink the false love turns to hate.
For love reflects the thing beloved.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Love will conquer at the last.
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
Tears, Idle Tears (1850)
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
The Eagle (1851)
Rich in saving common-sense,
And, as the greatest only are,
In his simplicity sublime.
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (1852)
My lord, you know what Virgil sings—
Woman is various and most mutable.
Queen Mary: A Drama (1876)
Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?
I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.
Is there evil but on earth? or pain in every peopled sphere?
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!