Lancelot and Elaine, and Other Idylls of the KingHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 204 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
anon answer'd arms ask'd Astolat battle behold blood brake brother Caerleon call'd Camelot castle cried Dagonet damsel dark dead death diamond Elaine Ettard Excalibur eyes face Fair lord fair maiden father fell fool Galahad grace Guinevere hall hand hath heard heart heathen heaven Holy Grail horse Isolt jousts King Arthur king Mark knew lady Lancelot lily maid Littledale live look'd lord Malory xviii Merlin Modred morn never noble knight o'er once pass pavilion Percivale pray Queen quest realm return'd rode rose seem'd shame shield Sir Bedivere Sir Bors Sir Ector Sir Gawaine Sir Launcelot Sir Lavaine Sir Pelleas Sir Tristram slain slay smote spake spear star stood Stopford Brooke sware sweet sword Table Round thee thine thou art thou hast thought thro told tower turn'd unto voice vows wherefore wind word
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Página 155 - If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
Página 152 - But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the mere.
Página 189 - For all the accommodations that thou bear'st Are nursed by baseness. Thou art by no means valiant; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm.
Página 155 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Página 150 - What harm, undone? Deep harm to disobey, Seeing obedience is the bond of rule. Were it well to obey then, if a king demand An act unprofitable, against himself?
Página 74 - Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will ; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — In moments when he feels he cannot die, And knows himself no vision to himself, Nor the high God a vision, nor that One Who rose again : ye have seen what ye have seen.
Página 137 - My love thro' flesh hath wrought into my life So far that my doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still. Perchance, and so thou purify thy soul, And so thou lean on our fair father Christ, Hereafter in that world where all are pure 560 We two may meet before high God, and thou Wilt spring to me, and claim me thine, and know I am thine husband — not a smaller soul, Nor Lancelot, nor another. Leave me that, I charge thee, my last hope. Now must I hence. Thro...
Página 149 - Came on the shining levels of the lake. There drew he forth the brand Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud...
Página 147 - The sequel of to-day unsolders all The goodliest fellowship of famous knights Whereof this world holds record. Such a sleep They sleep - the men I loved. I think that we Shall never more, at any future time, Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds, Walking about the gardens and the halls Of Camelot, as in the days that were. I perish by this people which I made, Tho' Merlin sware that I should come again To rule once more - but let what will be, be, I am so deeply smitten thro' the helm That...
Página 134 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear •To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity...