Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

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What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

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Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.

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Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

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Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!

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Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

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Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

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How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

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Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

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A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

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Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

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Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

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Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.

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But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

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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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There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.

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