Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?

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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

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My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

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Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.

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I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

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The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

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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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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

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Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus

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And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!

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I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

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So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

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It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

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An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

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A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.

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The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.

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