Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.

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Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.

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I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

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Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

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Lady, for indeed I loved you and I deemed you beautiful, I cannot brook to see your beauty marred Through evil spite: and if ye love me not, I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn: I had liefer ye were worthy of my love, Than to be loved again of you - farewell; And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love, Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more.

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You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.

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Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

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That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

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Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.

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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

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Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

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Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

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And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

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Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.

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Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.

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All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

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Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

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After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine.

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The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

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