Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

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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Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

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We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.

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A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

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Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. ... I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

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

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Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

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if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

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We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.

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Love will conquer at the last.

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Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.

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Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

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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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Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

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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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The thrall in person may be free in soul

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