Quotes from The Lady of Shalott

Alfred Tennyson ·  40 pages

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“I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.”
― Alfred Tennyson, quote from The Lady of Shalott


“She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look'd down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.”
― Alfred Tennyson, quote from The Lady of Shalott


“The mirror crack'd from side to side
"The curse has come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott”
― Alfred Tennyson, quote from The Lady of Shalott


“And sometimes through the mirror blue
The knights come riding two and two.”
― Alfred Tennyson, quote from The Lady of Shalott


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Alfred Tennyson
Born place: in Somersby, Lincolnshire, The United Kingdom
Born date August 6, 1809
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