Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

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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Who is this? And what is here? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer; And they crossed themselves for fear, All the Knights at Camelot; But Lancelot mused a little space He said, "She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.

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The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.

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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 men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

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Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.

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Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

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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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Things seen are mightier than things heard.

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I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

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How fares it with the happy dead?

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The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep.

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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

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For love reflects the thing beloved.

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Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

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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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Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

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Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

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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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