Madeline

Thou art not steep’d in golden languors,
No tranced summer calm is thine,
Ever varying Madeline.
Thro’ light and shadow thou dost range,
Sudden glances, sweet and strange,
Delicious spites and darling angers,
And airy forms of flitting change.

About Lord Alfred Tennyson

Poet Laureate of Victorian Britain. Master of musical verse whose works include "In Memoriam" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

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