The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Thick-jewelled shone the saddle-leather,
The helmet and the helmet-feather
Burned like one burning flame together,
As he rode down to Camelot.
‘The Lady of Shalott’ (1832, revised 1842) pt. 3
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 looked down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror cracked from side to side;
‘The curse is come upon me,’ cried
The Lady of Shalott.
‘The Lady of Shalott’ (1832, revised 1842) pt. 3
Slander, meanest spawn of Hell.
‘The Letters’ (1855)
Airy, fairy Lilian.
‘Lilian’ (1830)
In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove;
In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
‘Locksley Hall’ (1842) l. 19
And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
‘Locksley Hall’ (1842) l. 38
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,
Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
‘Locksley Hall’ (1842) l. 49
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
‘Locksley Hall’ (1842) l. 75.
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
‘Locksley Hall’ (1842) l. 79
But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.
‘Locksley Hall’ (1842) l. 105
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new:
That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do:
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,