Poems List

And trust me not at all or all in all.

 

Idylls of the King ‘Merlin and Vivien’ (1859) l. 396

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Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

 

Idylls of the King ‘Merlin and Vivien’ (1859) l. 458

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His honour rooted in dishonour stood,

 

And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

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It is the little rift within the lute,

 

That by and by will make the music mute.

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Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable,

 

Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat.

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Wearing the white flower of a blameless life,

 

Before a thousand peering littlenesses,

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Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

 

‘The Higher Pantheism’ (1869)

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O Love, O fire! once he drew

 

With one long kiss my whole soul through

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For though from out our bourne of time and place

 

The flood may bear me far,

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He clasps the crag with crookèd hands;

 

Close to the sun in lonely lands,

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