Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

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The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.

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Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.

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In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

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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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Attain the unattainable.

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In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold

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Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.

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Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

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

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Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

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

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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.

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Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

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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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That which we are, we are.

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Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

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Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

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There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.

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But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

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