Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.

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What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

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

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He makes no friend who never made a foe.

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I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

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What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

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God's finger touched him, and he slept.

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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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This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.

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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

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And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.

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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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Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.

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As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

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Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

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On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

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She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.

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For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.

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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

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This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

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