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" 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 138
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 261 pages
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Poems, Volume 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 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,...others there When I have purged my guilt." LADY CLARA VERB DE VERE. LADY Clara Vere de Vere, Of me you shall not win renown ; You thought to break a country...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 77

English literature - 1843 - 594 pages
...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,...with others there, When I have purged my guilt."' As the 'Palace of Art' represents the pride of voluptuous enjoyment in its noblest form, the ' St Simeon...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 14

United States - 1844 - 671 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,...return with others there, When I have purged my guilt* " With this noble poem we take our leave of the collection published in 1832, and their various grievous...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...threw her royal rohes 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,...others there When I have purged my guilt." LADY CLARA VERB DE VERE. LADY Clara Vere de Vere, Of me you shall not win renown ; You thought to break a country...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 25

1845 - 888 pages
...1 may mourn asd pray. Nor knows if it be thunder or a sound Of stones thrown down, or one deep cry Yet pull not down my palace towers that are So lightly, beautifully built; Perchance 1 may return with others there.' ' ll'i'A others.' She no longer thinks of enjoying her treasures alone....
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 25

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1845 - 652 pages
...her treasures alone. They cease to be treasures unless she can share them with her kind : 1 PEKCHANCE I may return with others there, When I have purged my guilt.' Alas ! after all the old ADAM clings to her. As if the Soul of man were able to purge herself ! How...
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Voices of the True-hearted

American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...sin forgiven by Christ in heaven By man is curst alway ! LADY CLARA VERB DE VERE. BY ALFRED TKMNYSON. Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Of me you shall not win renown; Ton thought to break a country heart For pastime, ere you went to town. At me you smiled, but unbegniled...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 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,...there When I have purged my guilt." LADY CLARA VERE DE VERB. LADY Clara Vere de Vere, Of me you shall not win renown : You thought to break a country heart...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 20

Universalism - 1852 - 572 pages
...in lowliness to pray and mourn over the past, yet said concerning the great work of the Past,— " Yet pull not down my palace towers, that are So lightly,...return with others there When I have purged my guilt." With a poet's subtle art we are taught that the Arts of Peace may build as reckless of humanity as...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 404 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,...with others there When I have purged my guilt." LADY CLABA VEBE DE VEBE.. LADY Clara Vere de Vere, Of me you shall not win renown : You thought to break...
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