Idylls of the King: In Twelve BooksHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1897 |
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answer'd arms ask'd Astolat Balan Balin battle beheld Caerleon call'd Camelot castle Coming of Arthur court cried Dagonet damsel dark dead death dream Dubric Elaine Enid Excalibur eyes face fair fair lord fell fire fool Galahad Geraint Geraint and Enid Guinevere hall hand hath heard heart heathen heaven Holy Grail horse Idylls Isolt jousts King Arthur kitchen-knave knave knight lady lance Lancelot Lavaine Limours Littledale look'd lord maid maiden Malory Merlin Modred morn never noble o'er once Percivale poem prince Queen quest ride rode rose seem'd shame shield Sir Balin Sir Bedivere Sir Gawaine Sir Launcelot Sir Pelleas smiled smote soul spake speak star stood Stopford Brooke sweet sword Table Round Tennyson thee thine thou art thou hast thought thro told Tristram turn'd unto Vivien voice vows wherefore wild wood word
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151. oldal - What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?' And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: 'I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag.
155. oldal - 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.
155. oldal - But now the whole Round Table is dissolved Which was an image of the mighty world; And I, the last, go forth companionless, And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
156. oldal - 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.
189. oldal - For all the accommodations that thou bear'st Are nursed by baseness. Thou art by no means valiant; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm.
207. oldal - Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May.
149. oldal - Came on the shining levels of the lake. There drew he forth the brand Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond sparks, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery.
29. oldal - Will bind thee by such vows as is a shame A man should not be bound by, yet the which No man can keep ; but, so thou dread to swear, Pass not beneath this gateway, but abide Without, among the cattle of the field. tjo For an ye heard a music, like enow They are building still, seeing the city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built for ever.
148. oldal - Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : "The sequel of to-day unsolders all The goodliest fellowship of famous knights Whereof this world holds record. Such a sleep They sleep — the men I loved. I think that we Shall never more, at any future time, Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds, Walking about the gardens and the halls Of Camelot, as in the days that were.
135. oldal - Until they won her ; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.