Lyonnesse
Americannoun
noun
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When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness When I set out for Lyonnesse A hundred miles away.
From Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Thomas Hardy
I saw Provence and that enchanted shore, And lotus-isles amid the dreamy South, And champions out of mediæval lore Looking at large for ladies in distress Round storied Lyonnesse.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
The "dolorous death and departing out of this world" in Lyonnesse and elsewhere corresponds to and completes the triumph of Sarras.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
This was the date of June 8th, 1920, the day when I had met him at the Lyonnesse Club.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
What would bechance at Lyonnesse While I should sojourn there No prophet durst declare, Nor did the wisest wizard guess What would bechance at Lyonnesse While I should sojourn there.
From Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Thomas Hardy
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