Bøger af Alfred Lord Tennyson

1899. Poet of the Victorian age, who succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate. The poems in this volume belong to two distinct epochs in Tennyson's life-the first being properly Juvenilia, written before he had completed his twenty-third year, while he was still more or less a trifler and a dilettante, and his work was crude and trivial; the second appearing nearly ten years subsequently, after the death of Hallam and after the severe castigation which the preceding poems had received in the Quarterly Review. Some of the more notable poems in this edition would be Mariana, The Recollections of the Arabian Nights, the Dying Swan, the Ode to Memory, Oriana and The Dirge and others.

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A young poet struggling with the loss of his father falls in love with Maud, a beautiful, young aristocrat. As his courtship is thwarted by her disapproving older brother, he tries his best to take Maud's hand in marriage. Maud, and Other Poems is a collection of poetry from British Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

" A storm was coming, but the winds were still,And in the wild woods of Broceliande,Before an oak, so hollow, huge and oldIt looked a tower of ivied masonwork,At Merlin's feet the wily Vivien lay.For he that always bare in bitter grudgeThe slights of Arthur and his Table, MarkThe Cornish King, had heard a wandering voice,A minstrel of Caerlon by strong stormBlown into shelter at Tintagil, sayThat out of naked knightlike puritySir Lancelot worshipt no unmarried girlBut the great Queen herself, fought in her name,Sware by her--vows like theirs, that high in heavenLove most, but neither marry, nor are givenIn marriage, angels of our Lord's report.He ceased, and then--for Vivien sweetly said(She sat beside the banquet nearest Mark),'And is the fair example followed, Sir,In Arthur's household?'--answered innocently:'Ay, by some few--ay, truly--youths that holdIt more beseems the perfect virgin knightTo worship woman as true wife beyondAll hopes of gaining, than as maiden girl.They place their pride in Lancelot and the Queen.So passionate for an utter purityBeyond the limit of their bond, are these,For Arthur bound them not to singleness.Brave hearts and clean! and yet God guide them young."

" Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,Tears from the depth of some divine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,And thinking of the days that are no more.Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,That brings our friends up from the underworld,Sad as the last which reddens over oneThat sinks with all we love below the verge;So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawnsThe earliest pipe of half-awakened birdsTo dying ears, when unto dying eyesThe casement slowly grows a glimmering square;So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.Dear as remembered kisses after death,And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feignedOn lips that are for others; deep as love,Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;O Death in Life, the days that are no more!"

" Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable,Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat,High in her chamber up a tower to the eastGuarded the sacred shield of Lancelot;Which first she placed where the morning's earliest rayMight strike it, and awake her with the gleam;Then fearing rust or soilure fashioned for itA case of silk, and braided thereuponAll the devices blazoned on the shieldIn their own tinct, and added, of her wit,A border fantasy of branch and flower,And yellow-throated nestling in the nest.Nor rested thus content, but day by day,Leaving her household and good father, climbedThat eastern tower, and entering barred her door,Stript off the case, and read the naked shield,Now guessed a hidden meaning in his arms,Now made a pretty history to herselfOf every dint a sword had beaten in it,And every scratch a lance had made upon it,Conjecturing when and where: this cut is fresh;That ten years back; this dealt him at Caerlyle;That at Caerleon; this at Camelot:And ah God's mercy, what a stroke was there!And here a thrust that might have killed, but GodBroke the strong lance, and rolled his enemy down,And saved him: so she lived in fantasy."

Idylls of the King is a collection of twelve narrative poems that recount Arthur's attempt and failure to lift up mankind and create a perfect kingdom, from his coming to power to his death at the hands of the traitor Mordred.

Maud, and Other Poems (1850) is a collection of poems by British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The first work Tennyson published after becoming Poet Laureate in 1850, Maud, and Other Poems contains several of the poet¿s most celebrated works. ¿Maud,¿ the title poem, is a narrative that explores themes of forbidden romance, marriage, death, and mourning. ¿The Charge of the Light Brigade,¿ originally published in The Examiner in 1854, was written as a tribute to the British Light Cavalry Brigade, which led an ill-fated charge at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.¿Maud¿ follows a young poet who, after the tragic loss of his father, falls in love with the beautiful Maud. Despite his honorable intentions, the narrator is thwarted by Maud¿s brother, who wants his sister to marry a wealthy businessman. When the brother takes a brief trip to London, the young poet uses the opportunity to court Maud in earnest. But time is not on his side, and the brother returns to throw a ball in order to introduce the businessman to his sister. As his chance at love erodes, the poet makes a desperate choice and risks losing everything¿love, home, and life itself. ¿The Charge of the Light Brigade¿ is a tribute to the British casualties at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. Tennyson¿s patriotic narrative poem addresses the controversy surrounding the charge, which took place because of a mistaken order and sent hundreds of British cavalrymen in a doomed head-on assault on a well-fortified Russian line of defense.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alfred, Lord Tennyson¿s Maud, and Other Poems is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.