Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ~ Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ 1913 ~ via

Illustration for Elaine

So those two brethren from the chariot took and on the black decks laid her in her bed.

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ~ Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ 1913 ~ via

Illustration for Guinevere

Before the coming of the sinful Queen.

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ~ Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ 1913 ~ via

Illustration for Guinevere

It was their last hour, a madness of farewells.

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ~ Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ 1913 ~ via

Illustration for Guinevere

The Queen who sat betwixt her best Enid, and lissome Vivien, of her court the wiliest and the worst.

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ~ Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ 1913 ~ via

Illustration for Vivien

O master do you love my tender rhyme?

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ~ Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ 1913 ~ via

Illustration for Vivien

And in the hollow oak he lay as dead, and lost to life and use and name and fame.

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ~ Vivien ~ Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ 1913 ~ via

Illustration for Vivien

At which the King had gazed upon her blankly and gone by.

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ~ Lancelot ~ Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ 1913 ~ via

Frontispiece, Illustration for Vivien

Sir Lancelot went ambassador, at first, to fetch her, and she took him for the King.

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ~ Enid ~ Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ 1913 ~ via

Illustration for Enid

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ~ Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ 1913 ~ via

Illustration for Enid

To make her beauty vary day by day, in crimsons and in purples and in gems.

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ~ Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ 1913 ~ via

Illustration for Enid

Yniol’s rusted arms were on his princely person, but thro’ these princelike his bearing shone.

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ~ They Rode ~ Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ 1913 ~ via

Illustration for Enid

They rode so slowly and they look’d so pale.

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ~ Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ~ 1913 ~ via

Illustration for Enid

And many past, but none regarded her.

‘Poems by Christina Rossetti’ illustrated by Florence Harrison. Published 1910 by Blackie & Son Limited.

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Katharine Cameron ~ Book Cover ~ Stories of King Arthur’s Knights Told to the Children ~ 1907 ~ via

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