text: ' "More yet that speaker would have said-- Poising between his smiles fair-fed Each separate phrase till finished: "But all the foreheads of those born And dead true poets flash'd with scorn Betwixt the bay leaves round them worn-- "Ay jetted such brave fire that they The new-come shrank and paled away Like leaden ashes when the day "Strikes on the hearth! A spirit-blast A presence known by power at last Took them up mutely--they had pass'd!" "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" is a poem of the Tennysonian school