Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

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The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

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Ah, why Should life all labour be?

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Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.

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We love but while we may; And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by love.

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Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

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An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

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

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Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.

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O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

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Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

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Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

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To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.

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I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.

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Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

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Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

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The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

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Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

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