Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.

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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

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Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

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I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

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How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

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I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.

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The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

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

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So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.

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If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

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Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

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Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.

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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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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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And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

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Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret.

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

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Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

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

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