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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SESTET SENT TO A FRIEND WITH A VOLUME OF TENNYSON, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
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
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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