68. Walking to the Mail

69. Edwin Morris; or, The Lake

70. St. Simeon Stylites

71. The Talking Oak

72. Love and Duty

73. The Golden Year.

74. Ulysses

75. Locksley Hall

76. Godiva

The Sleeping Palace.
The Sleeping Beauty.

The Arrival

The Revival

Lake.

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83. Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue

84. To, after reading a Life and Letters

85. To E. L., on his Travels in Greece

86. Lady Clare

87. The Captain

88. The Lord of Burleigh

89. Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere

90. A Farewell

91. The Beggar Maid

92. The Vision of Sin

93. "Come not, when I am Dead'

94. The Eagle

95. "Move Eastward, happy Earth"

96. "Break, break, break"

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97. The Poet's Song

98. The Brook

99. The Letters

100. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington

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22 I

IDYLLS OF THE KING AND OTHER POEMS

108. Idylls of the King: Dedication

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124. The Ringlet

125. A Welcome to Princess Alexandra

126. A Dedication

127. Experiments-In Quantity

128. Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank

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2

When my passion seeks
Pleasance in love-sighs
She, looking thro' and thro' me,
Thoroughly to undo me,

Smiling, never speaks:

So innocent-arch, so cunning-simple,
From beneath her gather'd wimple

Glancing with black-beaded eyes,
Till the lightning laughters dimple
The baby-roses in her cheeks;
Then away she flies.

3

Prythee weep, May Lilian !
Gaiety without eclipse
Wearieth me, May Lilian :
Thro' my very heart it thrilleth
When from crimson-threaded lips
Silver-treble laughter trilleth :
Prythee weep, May Lilian.

EYES not down-dropt nor over-bright, but fed
With the clear-pointed flame of chastity,
Clear, without heat, undying, tended by
Pure vestal thoughts in the translucent fane
Of her still spirit; locks not wide-dispread,
Madonna-wise on either side her head;
Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign
The summer calm of golden charity,
Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood,

Revered Isabel, the crown and head,
The stately flower of female fortitude,

Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead.

2

The intuitive decision of a bright

And thorough-edged intellect to part

Error from crime; a prudence to withhold;
The laws of marriage character'd in gold
Upon the blanched tablets of her heart;
A love still burning upward, giving light
To read those laws; an accent very low
In blandishment, but a most silver flow
Of subtle-paced counsel in distress,
Right to the heart and brain, tho' undescried,
Winning its way with extreme gentleness
Thro' all the outworks of suspicious pride;
A courage to endure and to obey;

A hate of gossip parlance, and of sway,
Crown'd Isabel, thro' all her placid life,
The queen of marriage, a most perfect wife.

3

The mellow'd reflex of a winter moon;
A clear stream flowing with a muddy one,
Till in its onward current it absorbs

With swifter movement and in purer light The vexed eddies of its wayward brother: A leaning and upbearing parasite,

Clothing the stem, which else had fallen quite, With cluster'd flower-bells and ambrosial orbs

Of rich fruit-bunches leaning on each otherShadow forth thee :-the world hath not another (Though all her fairest forms are types of thee, And thou of God in thy great charity) Of such a finish'd chasten'd purity.

IV

MARIANA

"Mariana in the moated grange."

Measure for Measure.

WITH blackest moss the flower-plots

Were thickly crusted, one and all:
The rusted nails fell from the knots

That held the peach to the garden-wall. 1
The broken sheds look'd sad and strange:
Unlifted was the clinking latch;

Weeded and worn the ancient thatch

Upon the lonely moated grange.