Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.

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She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthly bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.

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

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The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

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Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

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Shall love be blamed for want of faith?

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And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

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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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From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

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Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

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As the husband is, the wife is.

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That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.

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God's finger touched him, and he slept.

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Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

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Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

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Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

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