MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. Miscellaneous poems - Page 239by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893Full view - About this book
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...of sin. The sabbaths of Eternity, One sabbath deep and wide — A light upon the shining sea — SIR GALAHAD. MY good blade carves the casques of men,...shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging... | |
| 1853 - 460 pages
...consciousness that the poetry has cost the author some severe hammering, welding, and polishing : — " The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands...steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, And horse and rider reel. They reel, they roll in clanging lists, And when the tide of combat stands,... | |
| William Lovett - 1853 - 496 pages
...pervasive sense of strength and freedom, and a still deeper sense of moral harmony and lightness. " My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.'' It is also of great advantage to lead a reguPURITY. 225 lar life and one of incessant occupation. Have... | |
| 1867 - 746 pages
...again : That I will, and happy, and let people say what they will. I am like Sir Galahad, you know; 'my strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is as pure,' pure at least from the sin of envying another man his success. Bye-bye, Mrs. Grantley; come... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 404 pages
...One sabbath deep and wide — A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. MY good blade carves the casques of men,...shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter' d spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...earves the easques of men, My tough lanee thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Beeause my heart is pure. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splintered spear-shafts eraek and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in elanging... | |
| Society for the liberation of religion from State patronage and control - 1873 - 466 pages
...strength of rowdyism may be employed against us. ' My strength," says one of Tennyson's knights — " My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." That must be our strength, and we hope to employ it better than these Church Defenders. THE RITUALISTS... | |
| 1857 - 526 pages
...contemplation of unsullied purity : they knew and felt the truth which underlies those words of Tennyson — " My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure" — and they longed to show how this refusal to be tainted with infection, this perpetual looking up... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...One sabbath deep and wide — A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride I SIR GALAHAD. MY good blade carves the casques of men,...shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging... | |
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