Canto XVIII
'Tis well; 'tis something; we may stand Where he in English earth is laid, And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native...
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sammack1126
- Sep 28, 2019
Canto XVII
Thou comest, much wept for: such a breeze Compell'd thy canvas, and my prayer Was as the whisper of an air To breathe thee over...
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- Sep 23, 2019
Canto XVI
What words are these have fall'n from me? Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a...
sammack1126
- Sep 23, 2019
Canto XV
To-night the winds begin to rise And roar from yonder dropping day: The last red leaf is whirl'd away, The rooks are blown about...
sammack1126
- Sep 23, 2019
Canto XIV
If one should bring me this report, That thou hadst touch'd the land to-day, And I went down unto the quay, And found thee lying...
sammack1126
- Sep 23, 2019
Canto XIII
Tears of the widower, when he sees A late-lost form that sleep reveals, And moves his doubtful arms, and feels Her place is empty,...
sammack1126
- Sep 23, 2019
Canto XII
Lo, as a dove when up she springs To bear thro' Heaven a tale of woe, Some dolorous message knit below The wild pulsation of her...
sammack1126
- Sep 23, 2019
Canto XI
Calm is the morn without a sound, Calm as to suit a calmer grief, And only thro' the faded leaf The chestnut pattering to the...
sammack1126
- Sep 16, 2019
Canto X
I hear the noise about thy keel; I hear the bell struck in the night: I see the cabin-window bright; I see the sailor at the...
sammack1126
- Sep 16, 2019
Canto IX
Fair ship, that from the Italian shore Sailest the placid ocean-plains With my lost Arthur's loved remains, Spread thy full wings,...
sammack1126
- Sep 16, 2019
Canto VIII
A happy lover who has come To look on her that loves him well, Who 'lights and rings the gateway bell, And learns her gone and far from...
sammack1126
- Sep 16, 2019
Canto VII
Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting...
sammack1126
- Sep 16, 2019
Canto VI
One writes, that "Other friends remain," That "Loss is common to the race"— And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well...
sammack1126
- Sep 16, 2019
Canto V
Sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within....
sammack1126
- Sep 16, 2019
Canto IV
To Sleep I give my powers away; My will is bondsman to the dark; I sit within a helmless bark, And with my heart I muse and say: O...
sammack1126
- Sep 15, 2019
Canto III
O Sorrow, cruel fellowship, O Priestess in the vaults of Death, O sweet and bitter in a breath, What whispers from thy lying lip?...
sammack1126
- Sep 15, 2019
Canto II
Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the under-lying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about...
sammack1126
- Sep 15, 2019
Canto I
I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to...
sammack1126
- Sep 15, 2019
Introduction: In Memoriam Illustrated
Over the course of the next ten weeks, I will be creating 100+ drawings that illustrate Alfred Lord Tennyson’s famous poem In Memoriam A....
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