Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

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

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A day may sink or save a realm.

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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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This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

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

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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

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I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!

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I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

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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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And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.

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Sweet is true love, though given in vain.

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Trust me not at all, or all in all.

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The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

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Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

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The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

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I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

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I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

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