Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

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Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

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We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.

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Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

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Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.

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For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

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The many fail: the one succeeds.

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Oh good gray head which all men knew!

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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

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Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

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It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.

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Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

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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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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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I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

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The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

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It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

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There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.

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