Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or 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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Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!

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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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Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a morning pure and sweet, And the light and shadow fleet; She is walking in the meadow, And the woodland echo rings; In a moment we shall meet; She is singing in the meadow, And the rivulet at her feet Ripples on in light and shadow To the ballad that she sings.

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A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.

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And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

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

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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

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The mighty hopes that make us men.

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Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

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Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

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O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

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A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

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Bible reading is an education in itself.

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The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

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And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

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