sammack1126Sep 28, 2019Canto 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 ...
sammack1126Sep 28, 2019Canto XVIIThou 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 lon...
sammack1126Sep 23, 2019Canto XVIWhat words are these have fall'n from me? Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeli...
sammack1126Sep 23, 2019Canto 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 th...
sammack1126Sep 23, 2019Canto XIVIf 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 i...
sammack1126Sep 23, 2019Canto XIIITears of the widower, when he sees A late-lost form that sleep reveals, And moves his doubtful arms, and feels Her place is empty,...
sammack1126Sep 23, 2019Canto XIILo, 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 wi...
sammack1126Sep 23, 2019Canto XICalm is the morn without a sound, Calm as to suit a calmer grief, And only thro' the faded leaf The chestnut pattering to the grou...
sammack1126Sep 16, 2019Canto XI 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 wheel...
sammack1126Sep 16, 2019Canto IXFair ship, that from the Italian shore Sailest the placid ocean-plains With my lost Arthur's loved remains, Spread thy full wings,...
sammack1126Sep 16, 2019Canto VIIIA 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 ...
sammack1126Sep 16, 2019Canto VIIDark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting ...
sammack1126Sep 16, 2019Canto VIOne writes, that "Other friends remain," That "Loss is common to the race"— And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well mean...
sammack1126Sep 16, 2019Canto VSometimes 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. ...
sammack1126Sep 16, 2019Canto IVTo 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 he...
sammack1126Sep 15, 2019Canto IIIO Sorrow, cruel fellowship, O Priestess in the vaults of Death, O sweet and bitter in a breath, What whispers from thy lying lip? "T...
sammack1126Sep 15, 2019Canto IIOld Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the under-lying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about t...
sammack1126Sep 15, 2019Canto II 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...
sammack1126Sep 15, 2019Introduction: In Memoriam IllustratedOver the course of the next ten weeks, I will be creating 100+ drawings that illustrate Alfred Lord Tennyson’s famous poem In Memoriam A....