Category: Poetry
"And how canst thou in tourneys shine, Or tread the glittering festal floor? On chains of gold and cloth of pile, The looks of high-born Beauty smile; Nor peerless deeds, nor stainless line, Can lift to fame the Poor!"
Sir Elvar is the fairest knight That ever lured a lady's glance; Sir Elvar is the wealthiest lord That sits at good King Arthur's board; The bravest in the joust or fight, The l...
24. BOOK II.Farther, where the river glides by the wooded cover, Where the merlin singeth low, with the hawk above her Came a foot and shone a smile--woe is me, the Lover!
16. BOOK XII.Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to...
15. BOOK XI.The Siege of Carduel--The Saxon forces--Stanzas relative to Ludovick the Vandal, in explanation of the failure of his promised aid, and in description of the events in Vandal-la...
8. BOOK IV.Invocation to Love--Arthur, AEgle, and the Augur--Dialogue between the Cymrian and the Etrurian--Meanwhile Lancelot gains the sea-shore, where he meets with the Aleman priest an...
10. BOOK VI.Description of the Cymrian fire-beacons--Dialogue between Gawaine and Caradoc--The raven--Merlin announces to Gawaine that the bird selects him for the aid of the King--The knig...
7. BOOK III.Arthur still sleeps--The sounds that break his rest--The war between the beast and the man--How ended--The Christian foe and the heathen--The narrative returns to the Saxons in...
9. BOOK V.The Council-hall in Carduel--The twelve Knights of the Round Table described, viz., the three Knights of Council, the three Knights of Battle, the three Knights of Eloquence, an...
5. BOOK I.Opening--King Arthur keeps holiday in the Vale of Carduel--Pastimes-- Arthur's sentiments on life, love, and mortal change--The strange apparition--The King follows the Phantom...
13. BOOK IX.Invocation to the North--Winter, Labour, and Necessity, as agents of Civilization--The Polar Seas described--The lonely Ship; its Leader and Crew--Honour due from Song to the Di...
14. BOOK X.The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the...
23. PART VI.Hark! the awe-whisperd'd prayer, "God spare my mind!" Dust unto dust, the mortal to the clod; But the high place, the altar that has shrined Thine image,--spare, O God!
6. BOOK II.Introductory reflections--Arthur's absence--Caradoc's suspended epic-- The deliberations of the three friends--Merlin seeks them--The trial of the enchanted forest--Merlin's sol...
12. BOOK VIII.Lancelot continues to watch for Arthur till the eve of the following day, when a Damsel approaches the Lake--Lancelot's discreet behaviour thereon, and how the Knight and the Da...
11. BOOK VII.Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand t...
17. BOOK I.Who that has loved knows not the tender tale Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell? Whose youth has paused not, dreaming, in the vale Where the rath violets dwell?
1. PART I."And how canst thou in tourneys shine, Or tread the glittering festal floor? On chains of gold and cloth of pile, The looks of high-born Beauty smile; Nor peerless deeds, nor st...
20. PART III.21. PART IV.18. PART I.3. PART III.High joust, by Carduel's ancient town, The Kingly Arthur holds to-day; Around their Queen; in glittering row, The Starry Hosts of Beauty glow. Smile down, ye stars, on his renow...
2. PART II.Ask not the Bard to lift the veil That hides the Fairy's bridal bower; If thou art young, go seek the glade, And win thyself some fairy maid; And rosy lips shall tell the tale I...
22. PART V.19. PART II.