Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes

An English home - gray twilight pouredOn dewy pastures, dewy trees,Softer than sleep - all things in order stored,A haunt of ancient Peace.

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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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My purpose holdsTo sail beyond the sunset, and the bathsOf all the western stars, until I die.It may be that the gulfs will wash us downIt may be we shall touch the Happy IslesAnd see the great Achilles.

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He clasps the crag with crooked hands Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

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Dust are our frames and gilded dust, our prideLooks only for a moment whole and sound.

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The old order changeth, yielding place to new,And God fulfils Himself in many ways,Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

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Light shall spread, and man be liker manThro' all the season of the golden year.

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Our echoes roll from soul to soul,And grow for ever and for ever.

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A day less or moreAt sea or ashore,We die - does it matter when

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How sweet are looks that ladies bendOn whom their favours fall

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Ah God the petty fools of rhymeThat shriek and sweat in pigmy wars.

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He makes no friend who never made a foe.

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There is no joy but calm

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Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man.

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She only said, My life is dreary,He cometh not,' she saidShe said, I am aweary, aweary,I would that I were dead.'

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Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furledIn the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

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Birds in the high Hall-gardenWhen twilight was falling,Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud,They were crying and calling.

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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

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I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard,To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain.

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After-dinner talkAcross the walnuts and the wine.

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That God, which ever lives and loves,One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine event,To which the whole creation moves.

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Half a league, half a league,Half a league onward,All in the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.

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Ringed with the azure world, he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawlsHe watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls.

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O plump head-waiter at The Cock,To which I most resortHow goes the time 'Tis five o'clock.Go fetch a pint of port.

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