Poems List

Airy, fairy Lilian.

 

‘Lilian’ (1830)

In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove;

 

In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Out flew the web and floated wide;

 

The mirror cracked from side to side;

She left the web, she left the loom,

 

She made three paces through the room.

‘I am half sick of shadows,’ said

 

The Lady of Shalott.

‘Tirra lirra,’ by the river

 

Sang Sir Lancelot.

On either side the river lie

 

Long fields of barley and of rye,

Willows whiten, aspens quiver,

 

Little breezes dusk and shiver.

Kind hearts are more than coronets,

 

And simple faith than Norman blood.

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There hath he lain for ages and will lie

 

Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,

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