 So when four years were wholly finished, She threw her royal robes away. 'Make me a cottage in the vale,' she said, 'Where I may mourn and pray. 'Yet pull not down my palace towers, that are So lightly, beautifully built: Perchance I may return with others...  Poems - Page 138by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Willis Cooke - 1886 - 422 pages
...her royal robes away. "Make me a cottage in the vale," she cried, " Where I may mourn and pray. " Tet pull not down my palace towers, that are So lightly,...return with others there When I have purged my guilt!" In " The Vision of Sin " the poet shows the degradation which comes of submission to sense and pleasure.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1887 - 508 pages
...built : Perchance I may return with others there When I have purged my guilt." LADY CLARA VERB DE VERB. LADY Clara Vere de Vere, Of me you shall not win renown : You thought to break a country heart For IJIU-UHH:, ere you went to town. At nie you smiled, but uubegulled 1 saw the snare, and 1 retired :... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1889 - 894 pages
...her royal robes away. ' Make me a cottage in the vale,' she said, ' Where I may mourn and pray. 'Vet pull not down my palace towers, that are So lightly,...Clara Vere de Vere, Of me you shall not win renown : Vou thought to break a country heart For pastime, ere you went to town. At me you smiled, but unbeguiled... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1889 - 344 pages
...her royal robes away; ' Make me a cottage in the vale,' she said, 'Where I may mourn and pray. Vet pull not down my palace towers that are So lightly,...return with others there When I have purged my guilt.' " So, you see after all, the healthy instincts are bound to triumph at last; the soul must get back... | |
 | Elizabeth Hughes - 1889 - 104 pages
...and on leaving the narrow confines of separateness, as Rasselas leaves his happy valley, says : * " Yet, pull not down my palace towers that are so lightly, beautifully 1 ui!t ; Perchance I may return with others there, when I have purged my guilt." We see beautiful lives... | |
 | 1890 - 628 pages
..." struck thro' with pangs of hell," solved this problem of the relation of culture to morals, when she said : " Yet pull not down my palace towers, that...return with others there, When I have purged my guilt." Mr. Matthew Arnold's theory of culture we find little more satisfying than that of Goethe. It is too... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 pages
...intellectual and elegant seclusion sighs for " a cottage in the vale, " Where I may mourn and pray. Yet, pull not down my palace towers, that are So lightly,...return with others there When I have purged my guilt." This little volume of poems, in 1832, received some hearty praise from Coleridge, John Sterling, the... | |
 | 1884 - 784 pages
...beggars. At the risk of repeating what is already well known we venture to quote the first two stanzas : " Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Of me you shall not win renown ; You thought to break a country heart For i •.>'-) mi!', ere you went to town. At me you smiled, but unbeguiled I saw the snare and I retired... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891 - 302 pages
...threw her royal robes away. " Make me a cottage in the vale," she said, "Where I may mourn and pray. " Yet pull not down my palace towers, that are So lightly,...I have purged my guilt." LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE. T ADY Clara Vere de Vere, \ 1 Of me you shall not win renown: You thought to break a country heart... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - 1891 - 420 pages
...soul in The Palace of Art. "Make me a cottage in the vale," she said, "Where I may mourn and pray. Tet pull not down my palace towers, that are So lightly,...return with others there When I have purged my guilt." TV. Christianity, it has been seen, claims the ministry of Art in the whole field of life. What then... | |
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