The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson - LightNovelsOnl.com
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The _wrinkled_ sea beneath him _crawls_.
--'The Eagle'.
Or here of a s.h.i.+p at sea, in the distance:--
And on through zones of light and shadow _Glimmer away to the lonely deep_.
--'To the Rev. F. D. Maurice'.
Or here of waters falling high up on mountains:--
Their thousand _wreaths of dangling water-smoke_.
--'The Princess'.
Or of a water-fall seen at a distance:--
And _like a downward smoke_ the slender stream Along the cliff _to fall and pause and fall_ did seem.
Or here again:--
We left the dying ebb that _faintly lipp'd The flat red granite_.
Or here of a wave:--
Like a wave in the wild North Sea _Green glimmering toward the summit_ bears with all _Its stormy crests that smoke_ against the skies Down on a bark.
--'Elaine'.
That beech will _gather brown_, This _maple burn itself away_.
--'In Memoriam'.
The _wide-wing'd sunset_ of the misty marsh.
--'Last Tournament'.
But ill.u.s.trations would be endless. Nothing seems to escape him in Nature. Take the following:--
Like _a purple beech among the greens Looks out of place_.
--'Edwin Morris'.
Or
Delays _as the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green_.
--'The Princess'.
As _black as ash-buds in the front of March_.
--'The Gardener's Daughter'.
A gusty April morn That _puff'd_ the swaying _branches into smoke_.
--'Holy Grail'.
So with flowers, trees, birds and insects:--
The fox-glove _cl.u.s.ters dappled bells_.
--'The Two Voices'.
The sunflower:--
_Rays round with flame its disk of seed_.
--'In Memoriam'.
The dog-rose:--
_Tufts of rosy-tinted snow_.
--'Two Voices'.
