XXXVIII

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Palace of Art

There deephaired Milton like an angel tall

Stood limnèd, Shakspeare bland and mild,

Grim Dante pressed his lips, and from the wall

The hald blind Homer smiled.

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