Alfred Lord Tennyson

Abide

[Thou] shalt abide her judgment on it.

Abolish

His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.

Accurse

Thro' you, my life will be accurst.

adit

Yourself and yours shall have Free adit.

Advent

Expecting still his advent home.

Affection

And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house.

Affiance

Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance.

Air

Airing a snowy hand and signet gem.

Albeit

Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth.

All

Trust me not at all, or all in all.

Alliteration

Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.

Amorous

High nature amorous of the good.

Angry

I never ate with angrier appetite.

Appraise

Enoch . . . appraised his weight.

Appraised the Lycian custom.

Argent

The polished argent of her breast.

Arms

Three horses and three goodly suits of arms.

Arrive

Arrive at last the blessed goal.

Athwart

Athwart the thicket lone.

Awake

Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her.

Away

Be near me when I fade away.

Babble

The babble of the stream.

Balsam

Was not the people's blessing a balsam to thy blood?

Banter

Part banter, part affection.

Beholden

But being so beholden to the Prince.

Bench

Stately theaters benched crescentwise.

Berg

Glittering bergs of ice.

Bindweed

The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings.

Blab

And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient.

Blanch

[Bones] blanching on the grass.

Blare

To blare its own interpretation.

With blare of bugle, clamor of men.

Block

All her labor was but as a block Left in the quarry.

Blossom

The moving whisper of huge trees that branched And blossomed.

Blowzed

Huge women blowzed with health and wind.

Boat

I boated over, ran my craft aground.

Bode

There that night they bode.

Bole

Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean.

Boom

At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone.

boskage

Thridding the somber boskage of the wood.

Bound

And mete the bounds of hate and love.

Brede

Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede.

Brim

Arrange the board and brim the glass.

Brood

When with downcast eyes we muse and brood.

Browse

Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine.

Bubble

The milk that bubbled in the pail.

At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not.

Buffet

Strove to buffet to land in vain.

Bumper

He frothed his bumpers to the brim.

Bur

Bur and brake and brier.

Burial

Now to glorious burial slowly borne.

Bushless

O'er the long backs of the bushless downs.

Calamity

Where'er I came I brought calamity.

Calculation

The lazy gossips of the port, Abhorrent of a calculation crost, Began to chafe as at a personal wrong.

Can

Fill the cup and fill can, Have a rouse before the morn.

Canker

No lapse of moons can canker Love.

Canvas

By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led.

Captain

Foremost captain of his time.

Car

The towering car, the sable steeds.

Care

He cared not for the affection of the house.

Carol

Heard a carol, mournful, holy.

Carve

An angel carved in stone.

My good blade carved the casques of men.

A million wrinkles carved his skin.

Carven

The carven cedarn doors.

Cast

Who would cast and balance at a desk.

Cathay

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

Change

The ringing grooves of change.

Charge

If he did that wrong you charge him with.

“Charge for the guns!” he said.

The charge of the light brigade.

Chase

Chasing each other merrily.

Chastened

Of such a finished chastened purity.

Cheep

Cheep and twitter twenty million loves.

Cheer

Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street.

Chirrup

The sparrows' chirrup on the roof.

Christian

The graceful tact; the Christian art.

Clamber

The narrow street that clambered toward the mill.

Clash

The roll of cannon and clash of arms.

Clatter

The goose let fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter.

Clean

That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven

Clear-cut

She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face.

Click

When merry milkmaids click the latch.

Clog

A clog of lead was round my feet.

Club

They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics.

Cluster

His sunny hair Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's.

Not less the bee would range her cells, . . . The foxglove cluster dappled bells.

Clutter

It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there.

Columned

Troas and Ilion's columned citadel.

Come

I did not come to curse thee.

Comment

Their lavish comment when her name was named.

Commerce

Commercing with himself.

Commune

For days of happy commune dead.

Compel

I compel all creatures to my will.

Complexity

Many-corridored complexities Of Arthur's palace.

Condition

Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, Have ebb and flow conditioning their march.

Confess

As I confess it needs must be.

But since (And I confess with right) you think me bound.

Confuse

Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days.

Contumelious

Curving a contumelious lip.

Convention

There are thousands now Such women, but convention beats them down.

Convolvulus

The luster of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems.

Cord

The knots that tangle human creeds, The wounding cords that bind and strain The heart until it bleeds.

Costrel

A youth, that, following with a costrel, bore The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine.

Counsel

It was ill counsel had misled the girl.

Counterchange

Witch-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.

Course

You hold your course without remorse.

Court

And round the cool green courts there ran a row Of cloisters.

A well-worn pathway courted us To one green wicket in a privet hedge.

Coverlid

All the coverlid was cloth of gold.

Crack

The mirror cracked from side to side.

Creak

Doors upon their hinges creaked.

Creep

Like a guilty thing, I creep.

Crescent

O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set.

Cressy

The cressy islets white in flower.

Crevice

The mouse, Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, Or from the crevice peered about.

Crow

The sweetest little maid, That ever crowed for kisses.

Crowd

Crowds that stream from yawning doors.

To fool the crowd with glorious lies.

Cry

An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light; And with no language but a cry.

Crypt

My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine.

Cud

Chewed the thrice turned cud of wrath.

Cull

Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled.

Current

To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.

Custom

Moved beyond his custom, Gama said.

Cycle

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

Daffodil

A college gown That clad her like an April daffodilly.

Dainty

I would be the girdle. About her dainty, dainty waist.

Dalliance

O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strife!

Damsel

Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . . Goes by to towered Camelot.

Dangle

From her lifted hand Dangled a length of ribbon.

Dash

The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night.

Dear

Dear as remember'd kisses after death.

Deathwatch

I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat.

Debtor

Debtors for our lives to you.

Decad

Averill was a decad and a half his elder.

Decease

When our summers have deceased.

Deed

Would serve his kind in deed and word.

Defense

War would arise in defense of the right.

Defiance

Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down.

Delicious

Were not his words delicious?

Delight

Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.

Democrat

Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat.

Design

The vast design and purpos of the King.

Desire

Ye desire your child to live.

And slowly was my mother brought To yield consent to my desire.

Desolate

And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among.

Destine

Till the loathsome opposite Of all my heart had destined, did obtain.

Detach

[A vapor] detaching, fold by fold, From those still heights.

Devolve

Devolved his rounded periods.

Dew

Her tears fell with the dews at even.

Diaper

Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers.

Die

She will die from want of care.

Great deeds can not die.

Difficulty

In days of difficulty and pressure.

Dilation

At first her eye with slow dilation rolled.

Diminutive

Babyisms and dear diminutives.

Din

The dust and din and steam of town.

dinner

A grand political dinner.

Dint

Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield].

Dip

While the prime swallow dips his wing.

When I dipt into the future.

Disarm

The proud was half disarmed of pride.

Discern

I wake, and I discern the truth.

Disedge

Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart.

dishelm

Lying stark, Dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale.

Dishonor

His honor rooted in dishonor stood.

Disobey

Not to disobey her lord's behest.

Dispope

One whom they dispoped.

Dispraise

In praise and in dispraise the same.

Disprince

For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . . And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel.

Divinely

Most divinely fair.

Dole

And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat.

Double

Then the old man Was wroth, and doubled up his hands.

Doubt

I doubt not that however changed, you keep So much of what is graceful.

Dowager

With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans.

Down

When in the down I sink my head, Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath.

She went by dale, and she went by down.

I sit me down beside the hazel grove.

And that drags down his life.

Draff

Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt.

Drag

The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

Then while I dragged my brains for such a song.

Dress

Dressing their hair with the white sea flower.

To flaunt, to dress, to dance, to thrum.

Drink

To drink the cooler air,

Drip

The dark round of the dripping wheel.

Drive

Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb.

Drop

Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven.

Dropwise

Trickling dropwise from the cleft.

Drouth

In the dust and drouth of London life.

Drowsy

The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good.

Drug

Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it.

Due

Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil.

Duomo

Of tower or duomo, sunny sweet.

Dust

And you may carve a shrine about my dust.

Dwelling

Philip's dwelling fronted on the street.

Eagle

Though the Roman eagle shadow thee.

Ear

Songs . . . not all ungrateful to thine ear.

Early

You must wake and call me early.

Earthy

All over earthy, like a piece of earth.

Eat

The island princes overbold Have eat our substance.

Eaves

And closing eaves of wearied eyes.

Eerie

She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings.

Ellipse

The Sun flies forward to his brother Sun; The dark Earth follows wheeled in her ellipse.

Embattail

To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof.

Embrace

We stood tranced in long embraces, Mixed with kisses.

Emotion

Some vague emotion of delight.

Emptiness

The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite.

Enchant

He is enchanted, cannot speak.

Encompass

The love of all thy sons encompass thee.

Enring

The Muses and the Graces, grouped in threes, Enringed a billowing fountain in the midst.

Enwind

In the circle of his arms Enwound us both.

Estate

Then would I . . . Estate them with large land and territory.

Esteem

You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.

Except

But yesterday you never opened lip, Except, indeed, to drink.

Exercise

O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end.

Expert

What practice, howsoe'er expert In fitting aptest words to things . . . Hath power to give thee as thou wert?

Fable

We grew The fable of the city where we dwelt.

Failing

And ever in her mind she cast about For that unnoticed failing in herself.

Falter

Mde me most happy, faltering “I am thine.”

Feather

The ripple feathering from her bows.

Fellowship

The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof this world holds record.

Fence

As when a billow, blown against, Falls back, the voice with which I fenced A little ceased, but recommenced.

Firry

In firry woodlands making moan.

Flash

A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act.

Flaw

Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn.

Fleckless

My consnience will not count me fleckless.

Flicker

The shadows flicker to fro.

Fling

This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken.

Flit

A shadow flits before me.

Flock

As half amazed, half frighted all his flock.

Flourish

We say Of those that held their heads above the crowd, They flourished then or then.

Flout

Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn.

Flower

A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

Fluctuate

And fluctuate all the still perfume.

Flush

How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there!

The flush of angered shame.

Flute

Knaves are men, That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

Fold

The very whitest lamb in all my fold.

Foray

The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey.

Forbear

The King In open battle or the tilting field Forbore his own advantage.

Forebode

His heart forebodes a mystery.

Foreshorten

Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time.

Forge

Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.

Four-in-hand

As quaint a four-in-hand As you shall see.

Foxy

Modred's narrow, foxy face.

Fraction

Some niggard fractions of an hour.

Fret

With many a curve my banks I fret.

Frolic

Hither, come hither, and frolic and play.

Front

[Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor.

Froth

Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?

Fulmine

She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique.

Fuse

Whose fancy fuses old and new.

Gadding

The good nuns would check her gadding tongue.

Gain

Forded Usk and gained the wood.

Galingale

Meadow, set with slender galingale.

Gap

Their masses are gapp'd with our grape.

Garb

These black dog-Dons Garb themselves bravely.

Garth

A clapper clapping in a garth To scare the fowl from fruit.

Gather

Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.

Gaze

I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon!

Gemmy

The gemmy bridle glittered free.

Gewgaw

Seeing his gewgaw castle shine.

Gibe

With solemn gibe did Eustace banter me.

Gigantesque

The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque With which we bantered little Lilia first.

Give

This, yielding, gave into a grassy walk.

Rooms which gave upon a pillared porch.

Glance

From art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shivered lance, That breaks about the dappled pools.

Glimmer

Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls.

Gloom

A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.

Glooming

The balmy glooming, crescent-lit.

Glut

Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.

God-fearing

A brave god-fearing man.

Gossip

Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and spite.

Gowned

Gowned in pure white, that fitted to the shape.

Grange

Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking maid.

Grayling

And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling.

Guerdon

Him we gave a costly bribe To guerdon silence.

Gulf

A gulf of ruin, swallowing gold.

Gustful

A gustful April morn.

Half

Assumed from thence a half consent.

A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between us.

Harass

Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt.

Harborage

Where can I get me harborage for the night?

Hatch

Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness.

Hate

I hate that he should linger here.

For in a wink the false love turns to hate.

Haunt

The feeble soul, a haunt of fears.

Have

Myself for such a face had boldly died.

Haven

Their haven under the hill.

Haze

O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn.

Hearing

They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave.

Hearth

Household talk and phrases of the hearth.

Helm

A wild wave . . . overbears the bark, And him that helms it.

Hest

Yet I thy hest will all perform, at full.

Highering

In ever highering eagle circles.

Hint

We whisper, and hint, and chuckle.

Hiss

The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise.

Hit

He scarcely hit my humor.

Hither

And on the hither side, or so she looked, Of twenty summers.

Hive

The hive of Roman liars.

Hobnail

Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.

Hold

New comers in an ancient hold

Hole

The blind walls Were full of chinks and holes.

Hollow

I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.

Holm

The soft wind blowing over meadowy holms.

Holt

She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park.

Home

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.

Honey

Rough to common men, But honey at the whisper of a lord.

Hoof

On burnished hooves his war horse trode.

Hostel

So pass I hostel, hall, and grange.

House

The last remaining pillar of their house, The one transmitter of their ancient name.

Hovel

The poor are hoveled and hustled together.

Huddle

The cattle huddled on the lea.

Hunt

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

Hunter

No keener hunter after glory breathes.

Hurricane

Like the smoke in a hurricane whirl'd.

Hurter

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

Hush

And hush'd my deepest grief of all.

Hustings

When the rotten hustings shake In another month to his brazen lies.

Hyades

Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea.

Icily

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more.

Immerse

The queen immersed in such a trance.

Increscent

Between the incresent and decrescent moon.

Inflate

Inflate themselves with some insane delight.

Inlay

The sloping of the moonlit sward Was damask work, and deep inlay Of braided blooms.

Inosculate

They were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated.

Inswathe

Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist.

Intelligence

The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there.

Interlock

My lady with her fingers interlocked.

Intervital

Through all its [the spirit's] intervital gloom.

Irritable

Vicious, old, and irritable.

Isle

Isled in sudden seas of light.

Jail

[Bolts] that jail you from free life.

Jet

A dozen angry models jetted steam.

Jumble

Every clime and age Jumbled together.

Kex

Though the rough kex break The starred mosaic.

Key

Who keeps the keys of all the creeds.

Kindly

The shade by which my life was crossed, . . . Has made me kindly with my kind.

Kiss

Rose, rose and clematis, Trail and twine and clasp and kiss.

Dear as remembered kisses after death.

Knightly

[Excuses] full knightly without scorn.

Knit

A link among the days, toknit The generations each to each.

Knoll

Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.

Knot

Palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.

With lips serenely placid, felt the knot Climb in her throat.

As tight as I could knot the noose.

Labyrinth

The labyrinth of the mind.

Languorous

To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain.

Lap

I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag.

Lawn

“Orchard lawns and bowery hollows.”

Lead

Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days.

Leal

All men true and leal, all women pure.

Lean

He leaned not on his fathers but himself.

Leash

Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.

Leer

The priest, above his book, Leering at his neighbor's wife.

Let

Mine ancient wound is hardly whole, And lets me from the saddle.

Letter

I broke the letter of it to keep the sense.

Lidless

A lidless watcher of the public weal.

Lief

As thou art lief and dear.

Far liefer by his dear hand had I die.

Liege

She looked as grand as doomsday and as grave; And he, he reverenced his liege lady there.

Light

Joan of Arc, A light of ancient France.

Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn.

On the tree tops a crested peacock lit.

And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with the rest.

Lightly

Watch what thou seest and lightly bring me word.

Lilt

A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous epic lilted out By violet-hooded doctors.

Lime

We had limed ourselves With open eyes, and we must take the chance.

Lissom

Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand.

List

The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.

Listen

Listen to me, and by me be ruled.

Little

The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise, Because their natures are little.

Lordly

The maidens gathered strength and grace And presence, lordlier than before.

Lotus-eater

The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters.

Lovable

Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat.

Lovely

Indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns.

Loving

The fairest and most loving wife in Greece.

Low

The . . . odorous wind Breathes low between the sunset and the moon.

Lower

Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love Down to a silent grave.

Lucid

A court compact of lucid marbles.

Lurid

Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide.

Lute

Knaves are men That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

Maiden

A maiden of our century, yet most meek.

Mantle

Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm.

March

Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles.

May

Plumes that mocked the may.

Messuage

They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York.

Metropolis

[Edinburgh] gray metropolis of the North.

Mob

Confused by brainless mobs.

Mouth

Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes.

Well I know, when I am gone, How she mouths behind my back.

Murmurous

The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings.

Name

Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the underlying dead.

Necessity

What was once to me Mere matter of the fancy, now has grown The vast necessity of heart and life.

Nip

May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress.

Nose

Lambs . . . nosing the mother's udder.

Null

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more.

Numb

Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.

Oasis

My one oasis in the dust and drouth Of city life.

Obey

Will he obey when one commands?

Observance

O I that wasted time to tend upon her, To compass her with sweet observances!

Odalisque

Not of those that men desire, sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode.

Omega

“Omega! thou art Lord,” they said.

Orb

And orb into the perfect star.

Oriel

The beams that thro' the oriel shine Make prisms in every carven glass.

Orient

[Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold.

ornament

Like that long-buried body of the king Found lying with his urns and ornaments.

Our

Our wills are ours, we know not how.

Oust

From mine own earldom foully ousted me.

Outline

But that larger grief . . . Is given in outline and no more.

Outstrip

He still outstript me in the race.

Ouzel

The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm.

Ovation

To rain an April of ovation round Their statues.

Overtoil

Then dozed a while herself, but overtoiled By that day's grief and travel.

Pack

You shall pack, And never more darken my doors again.

pad

An abbot on an ambling pad.

Palfrey

Call the host and bid him bring Charger and palfrey.

Pall

Warriors carry the warrior's pall.

palm

Clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm.

Palter

Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power.

Parcel

The broad woodland parceled into farms.

One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially bearded].

Parlance

A hate of gossip parlance and of sway.

Part

I am a part of all that I have met.

Pass

The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes.

Passage

No passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore.

Patriarchal

About whose patriarchal knee Late the little children clung.

Pay

If they pay this tax, they starve.

Pendragon

The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings.

Peptic

Is there some magic in the place, Or do my peptics differ?

Perch

Not making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions.

Perky

There amid perky larches and pines.

Piecemeal

The beasts will tear thee piecemeal.

Pinnacle

Three silent pinnacles of aged snow.

Pipe

The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.

Plane

What student came but that you planed her path.

Plat

I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground.

Pleasure

[Rolled] his hoop to pleasure Edith.

Plumelet

When rosy plumelets tuft the larch.

Plunge

Bound and plunged him into a cell.

Pool

The sleepy pool above the dam.

Populace

They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces.

Portion

Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

Presageful

Dark in the glass of some presageful mood.

Present

Past and present, wound in one.

Prickle

Felt a horror over me creep, Prickle skin, and catch my breath.

Process

The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.

Pulse

The measured pulse of racing oars.

Pupilage

As sons of kings, loving in pupilage, Have turned to tyrants when they came to power.

Purblind

O purblind race of miserable men.

Quick

They say that women are so quick.

Quicken

When the pale and bloodless east began To quicken to the sun.

Quip

He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er.

Quitch

To pick the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him.

Ravin

Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

Rear

One reared a font of stone.

Reave

The heathen caught and reft him of his tongue.

Redound

We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come.

Reflex

On the depths of death there swims The reflex of a human face.

Relic

The pearls were spilt; Some lost, some stolen, some as relics kept.

Remorse

But evermore it seem'd an easier thing At once without remorse to strike her dead.

Reorient

The life reorient out of dust.

Reticence

Such fine reserve and noble reticence.

Right

Right across its track there lay, Down in the water, a long reef of gold.

Ring

The hall with harp and carol rang.

Riot

[He] had rioted his life out.

Rivage

From the green rivage many a fall Of diamond rillets musical.

Roll

Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies.

Rooftree

Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall.

Round

Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon.

So rounds he to a separate mind, From whence clear memory may begin.

Rouse

Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn.

Rue

Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.

Ruffle

[the swan] ruffles her pure cold plume.

But, ever after, the small violence done Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart.

Rumble

Clamor and rumble, and ringing and clatter.

Rummage

[His house] was haunted with a jolly ghost, that . . . . . . rummaged like a rat.

Salique

She fulmined out her scorn of laws salique.

Sap

Ring out the grief that saps the mind.

Sapience

Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience.

Scantly

We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work.

Scar

O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing.

Scarp

From scarped cliff and quarried stone.

Selfless

Lo now, what hearts have men! they never mount As high as woman in her selfless mood.

Sentiment

Less of sentiment than sense.

Session

But Viven, gathering somewhat of his mood, . . . Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood.

Set

Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint.

Shimmer

The shimmering glimpses of a stream.

Shipshape

Keep everything shipshape, for I must go

Shoot

The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.

Show

All round a hedge upshoots, and shows At distance like a little wood.

Sibilation

He, with a long, low sibilation, stared.

Siege

In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . . And Merlin called it “The siege perilous.”

Sigh

The winter winds are wearily sighing.

Slip

Moonlit slips of silver cloud.

Smither

Smash the bottle to smithers.

Smoldering

Some evil chance Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze.

Sneer

“A ship of fools,” he sneered.

Soilure

Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk.

Something

My sense of touch is something coarse.

Somewhat

Here come those that worship me. They think that I am somewhat.

Spate

Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate.

Speak

Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes.

Spence

Bluff Harry broke into the spence, And turned the cowls adrift.

Spire

A spire of land that stand apart, Cleft from the main.

Spleenful

Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge that spann'd the dry ravine.

Spread

Boiled the flesh, and spread the board.

Squall

The gray skirts of a lifting squall.

Stand

Six feet two, as I think, he stands.

Star

On whom . . . Lavish Honor showered all her stars.

Stave

And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance That breaks upon them perilously.

Stepping-stone

That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

Store

Dora stored what little she could save.

Strait

A dark strait of barren land.

Stream

A thousand suns will stream on thee.

Streetward

Their little streetward sitting room.

Strike

Struck for throne, and striking found his doom.

Stump

A herd of boys with clamor bowled, And stumped the wicket.

Sue

Sue me, and woo me, and flatter me.

Suffer

O well for him whose will is strong! He suffers, but he will not suffer long.

Suggest

And ever weaker grows through acted crime, Or seeming-genial, venial fault, Recurring and suggesting still.

Sumptuous

She spoke, and turned her sumptuous head, with eyes Of shining expectation fixed on mine.

Swamp

Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern.

Sward

The sward was trim as any garden lawn.

Sware

Cophetua sware a royal oath.

Swell

The swell Of the long waves that roll in yonder bay.

Table-land

The toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon the shining table-lands To which our God himself is moon and sun.

Tarriance

And after two days' tarriance there, returned.

Temperate

That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.

Tendance

The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him.

That

He gazed so long That both his eyes were dazzled.

Therewithal

And therewithal one came and seized on her, And Enid started waking.

Thew

And I myself, who sat apart And watched them, waxed in every limb; I felt the thews of Anakim, The pules of a Titan's heart.

Thorn

I am the only rose of all the stock That never thorn'd him.

Thorp

Then thorpe and byre arose in fire.

Thrid

I began To thrid the musky-circled mazes.

Thrive

And so she throve and prospered.

Throne

To mold a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne.

Till

Women, up till this Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo.

Tilt

But in this tournament can no man tilt.

Tilth

And so by tilth and grange . . . We gained the mother city.

Timber

And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, . . . And fiddled in the timber!

Tinct

All the devices blazoned on the shield, In their own tinct.

Tirralirra

“Tirralira, ” by the river, Sang Sir Lancelot.

Tonguester

Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall.

Tonsured

A tonsured head in middle age forlorn.

Tourney

We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work.

Trance

When thickest dark did trance the sky.

Trap

There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold.

Tread

She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat.

Trode

On burnished hooves his war-horse trode.

Trow

It never yet was worn, I trow.

Truth-lover

Truth-lover was our English Duke.

Truth-teller

Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named.

Tryst

The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at village stile.

Tu-whit

Thy tu-whits are lulled, I wot, Thy tu-whoos of yesternight.

Twangle

While the twangling violin Struck up with Soldier-laddie.

Twin

Still we moved Together, twinned, as horse's ear and eye.

Type

Let us type them now in our own lives.

Underfringe

Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard.

Undershapen

His dwarf, a vicious undershapen thing.

Undersky

Floating about the undersky.

Underworld

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld.

Unfaith

Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.

Unfaithful

His honor rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

Unrest

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast?

Upclimb

Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.

Uprise

Uprose the mystic mountain range.

Varier

Pious variers from the church.

Veneer

As a rogue in grain Veneered with sanctimonious theory.

Verbiage

This barren verbiage current among men.

Vibrate

Star to star vibrates light.

Victual

There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare victual for the mowers.

Virgilian

The rich Virgilian rustic measure Of Lari Maxume.

Wan

Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.

And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair.

Wannish

No sun, but a wannish glare, In fold upon fold of hueless cloud.

Warp

Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.

Watchword

Nor deal in watchwords overmuch.

Wattle

And there he built with wattles from the marsh A little lonely church in days of yore.

Wave

She spoke, and bowing waved Dismissal.

Weald

Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And heard the spirits of the waste and weald Moan as she fled.

Weathercock

Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire.

Weed

A wild and wanton pard . . . Crouched fawning in the weed.

Weird

Myself too had weird seizures.

Weld

Two women faster welded in one love.

Wharf

Out upon the wharfs they came, Knight and burgher, lord and dame.

Wheedle

And wheedle a world that loves him not.

Whirl

The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into folly.

Whole

When Sir Lancelot's deadly hurt was whole.

Wisp

The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread.

Wold

The wind that beats the mountain, blows More softly round the open wold.

Womanhood

Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood.

Womanlike

Womanlike, taking revenge too deep.

Word

She said; but at the happy word “he lives,” My father stooped, re-fathered, o'er my wound.

Wraith

O, hollow wraith of dying fame.

Writhe

His battle-writhen arms, and mighty hands.