Lord of
Lord of
golden-years years golden
Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
swans ruffles cold
Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.
quiet hills calmness
The noonday quiet holds the hill.
women men
Woman is the lesser man.
experience teach folly
And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.
travel observation
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
league valleys half
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
knows
Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
fate men masters
Man is man, and master of his fate.
profit humans knows
I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.
women hard
The woman is so hard Upon the woman.
ferns valleys sparkle
I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
wall flower space
Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
priests delicate heard
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.