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SESTET SENT TO A FRIEND WITH A VOLUME OF TENNYSON by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

Poet Analysis

First Line: WOULDST KNOW THE CLASH OF KNIGHTLY STEEL ON STEEL?
Last Line: TURN BUT THE PAGE, THAT VARIOUS WORLD IS HERE!
Subject(s): TENNYSON, ALFRED (1809-1892); TENNYSON, ALFRED TENNYSON, 1ST BARON;

WOULDST know the clash of knightly steel on steel?
Or list the throstle singing loud and clear?
Or walk at twilight by some haunted mere
In Surrey; or in throbbing London feel
Life's pulse at highest -- hark, the minster's peal! . . .
Turn but the page, that various world is here!



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