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Poems of Alfred Tennyson - Vol. 12 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower--but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. LITERARY" SQUABBLES. Ah God! the petty fools of rhyme That shriek and sweat in pigmy wars Before the stony face of Time, And look''d at by the silent stars: Who hate each other for a song, And do their little best to bite And pinch their brethren in the throng, And scratch the very dead for spite: And strain to make an inch of room For their sweet selves, and cannothear The sullen Lethe rolling doom On them and theirs and all things here: Whdn one small touch of Charity Could lift them nearer God-like state Than if the crowded Orb should cry Like those who cried Diana great: And I too, talk, and lose the touch I talk of. Surely, after all, The noblest answer unto such Is perfect stillness when they brawls DEDICATION. These to His Memory--since he held them dear, Perchance as finding there unconsciously Some image of himself--I dedicate, I dedicate, I consecrate with tea"re--These Idylls. And indeed He seems to me Scarce other than my own ideal knight, "Who reverenced his conscience as his king; Whose glory was, redressing human wrong; Who spake no slander, no, nor listen''d to it; Who loved one only and who clave to her--" Her--over all whose realms to their last isle, Commingled with the gloom of imminent war, The shadow of His loss drew like eclipse. Darkening the world. We have lost him: he is gone: We know him now: all narrow jealousies Are silent: and we see him as he moved, How modest, kindly, all-accoInplishsd, wise, With what sublime repression of himself. And in what limits, and how tenderly; INot swaying to this faction or to that; Not making his high place the lawless pe...

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This historical work is an early edition of Alfred Tennyson''s first Arthurian poem and is decorated by the talented illustrator Howard Pyle.