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The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may. - Idylls of the King--The Last Tournament (l. 276) [Trees] Too much wit makes the world rotten. - Idylls of the King--The Tournament [Wit] Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. - In Memoriam, pt. VI [Grief : Heart : Proverbs] Dip down upon the northern shore, O sweet new year, delaying long; Thou doest expectant nature wrong, Delaying long; delay no more. - In Memoriam (82) [Spring] As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar. - In Memoriam (canto 64) [Birth] One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves. - In Memoriam (conclusion, last stanza) [Creation] We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'er he be, And sing the songs he loved to hear. - In Memoriam (CVII) [Festivities] And thus he bore without abuse The grand old name of gentleman, Defamed by every charlatan And soiled with all ignoble use. - In Memoriam (CX, st. 6) [Gentlemen] Large elements in order brought, And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world-wide fluctuation sway'd, In vassal tides that follow'd thought. - In Memoriam (CXII, st. 4) [Thought] Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail. - In Memoriam (CXIV) [Knowledge] And in my breast Spring wakens too; and my regret Becomes an April violet, And buds and blossoms like the rest. - In Memoriam (CXV) [Violets] I was born to other things. - In Memoriam (CXX) [Discontent] And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men. - In Memoriam (CXXIV) [Darkness] Forgive what seem'd my sin in me; What seem'd my worth since I began. - In Memoriam (introduction) [Virtue] 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 (LIV) [Hope] That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. - In Memoriam (LIV) [Compensation] O, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will Defects of doubt and taints of blood. - In Memoriam (LIV, 1) [Goodness] So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. - In Memoriam (LXXII, 1) [Action : World] Death has made His darkness beautiful with thee. - In Memoriam (LXXIV) [Death] God's finger touched him, and he slept. - In Memoriam (LXXXV) [Death] O friendship, equal-poised control, O heart, with kindliest motion warm, O sacred essence, other form, O solemn ghost, O crowned soul! - In Memoriam (LXXXV) [Friendship] The might hops that make us men. - In Memoriam (LXXXV) [Hope] Our father's dust is left alone And silent under other snows. - In Memoriam (pt. CV) [Graves] Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be. - In Memoriam (pt. CVI) [Bells] Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. - In Memoriam (pt. CVI) [Bells] Displaying page 8 of 18 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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