 That lightly rain from ladies' hands. How sweet are looks that ladies bend On whom their favours fall! For them I battle till the end, To save from shame and thrall: But all my heart is drawn above, My knees are bow'd in crypt and shrine: I never felt...  Punch - Page 2701888Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...roll in clanging lists, And when the tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall in showers, II. How sweet are looks that ladies bend On whom their favours fall ! For them I battle till the end, To save from shame and thrall : But all my heart is drawn above, My knees are bow'd in... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall in showers, That lightly rain from ladies' hands. II. How sweet are looks that ladies bend On whom their favours fall ! For them I battle till the end, To save from shame and thrall : But all my heart is drawn above, My knees are bow'd in... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall in showers, That lightly rain from ladies' hands. II. How sweet are looks that ladies bend On whom their favours fall ! For them I battle till the end, To save from shame and thrall : But all my heart is drawn above, My knees are bow'd in... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...the tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall in showers, That lightly rain from ladies' hands. How sweet are looks that ladies bend On whom their favours fall ! For them I battle till the end, To save from shame and thrall : But all my heart is drawn above, My knees are bow'd in... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 pages
...in clanging lists, And when the tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall in showers, « II. How sweet are looks that ladies bend On whom their favours fall ! For them I battle till the end, To save from shame and thrall : But all my heart is drawn above, My knees are bow'd in... | |
 | 1908 - 674 pages
...Suffixes and prefixes omitted." More interesting is this instance from Tennyson's ' Sir Galahad ' : — How sweet are looks that ladies bend On whom their favours fall ! I think the same construction may be found in Latin (Ovid, ' Metam.,' i. 74) : — Cesserunt nitidis... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...the tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall in showers, That lightly rain from ladies' hands. How sweet are looks that ladies bend On whom their favours fall! For them I battle till the end, To save from shame and thrall: But all my heart is drawn above, My knees are bow'd in... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...the tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall in shadows That lightly rain from ladies' hands. How sweet are looks that ladies bend On whom their favours fall ! For them I battle till the end, To save from shame and thrall ; But all my heart is drawn above, My knees are bow'd in... | |
 | 1860 - 632 pages
...Galahad riding on his quest of the Sancgrael, a legend supposed to embody such deep spiritual meanings. ' How sweet are looks that ladies bend On whom their...battle to the end, To save from shame and thrall: But all my heart is drawn above, My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine; I never felt the kiss of love,... | |
 | 1860 - 634 pages
...Galahad riding on his quest of the Sanegrael, a legend supposed to embody such deep spiritual meanings. ' How sweet are looks that ladies bend On whom their favours fall ! For them I battle to the ond, : To save from shame and thrall : But all my heart is drawn above, My knees are bowed in crypt... | |
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