Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ... 'So careful of the type', but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go' ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law- Tho' Nature red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

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

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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

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Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

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That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

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The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

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Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

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In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

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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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Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

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The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

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What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

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But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

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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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The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.

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