And was the day of my delight
As pure and perfect as I say?
Alfred Tennyson
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B...
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B...
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she is the sun
i can touch
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Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can
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He sat upon his noble throne shinin...
LAUREL A. ROCKEFELLER I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
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Half in dreams I sorrow after
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More Alfred Tennyson
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
ALFRED TENNYSON Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
ALFRED TENNYSON No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED TENNYSON I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED TENNYSON O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight...
ALFRED TENNYSON The quiet sense of something lost
ALFRED TENNYSON If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than t...
ALFRED TENNYSON That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,/ But a lie which is part a truth ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Not the schoolboy heat,/ The blind hysterics of the Celt.
ALFRED TENNYSON Time driveth onward fast,/ And in a little while our lips are dumb./ Let us alone. What is it that w...
ALFRED TENNYSON Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED TENNYSON The vow that binds too strictly snaps, itself
ALFRED TENNYSON Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power
ALFRED TENNYSON She has heard a whisper say,/ A curse is on her if she stay/ To look down to Camelot.
ALFRED TENNYSON So, friend, when I first looked upon your face, our thoughts gave answer each to each. Opposed mirro...
ALFRED TENNYSON A happy bridesmaid makes a happy bride.
ALFRED TENNYSON And down I went to fetch my bride:
But, Alice, you were ill at ease;
This dress and that b...
ALFRED TENNYSON Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depths of some devine despair
ALFRED TENNYSON The mirror crack'd from side to side
"The curse has come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalo...
ALFRED TENNYSON I will drink life to the lees.
ALFRED TENNYSON She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.
ALFRED TENNYSON Never, oh! never, nothing will die;
The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleet...
ALFRED TENNYSON The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.
ALFRED TENNYSON Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
ALFRED TENNYSON Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days ALFRED TENNYSON Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.
ALFRED TENNYSON Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED TENNYSON Let me go: take back thy gift:
Why should a man desire in any way
To vary from the kindly ...
ALFRED TENNYSON But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,
And beat me down and marr’d and wasted m...
ALFRED TENNYSON Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell.
ALFRED TENNYSON She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mars, That marvellous round of milky light Below Orion, and thos...
ALFRED TENNYSON So runs my dream, but what am I?
An infant crying in the night
An infant crying for the li...
ALFRED TENNYSON I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
ALFRED TENNYSON He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED TENNYSON There rolls the deep where grew the tree
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
There where...
ALFRED TENNYSON When in the down I sink my head,
Sleep, Death's twin-brother, times my breath;
Sleep, Deat...
ALFRED TENNYSON Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle ; and the...
ALFRED TENNYSON So word by word, and line by line,
The dead man touch'd me from the past,
And all at once ...
ALFRED TENNYSON But I remain'd, whose hopes were dim,
Whose life, whose thoughts were little worth,
To wan...
ALFRED TENNYSON My own dim life should teach me this,
That life shall live for evermore,
Else earth is dar...
ALFRED TENNYSON That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morn...
ALFRED TENNYSON Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds,
At last he beat his music out.
There lives more fait...
ALFRED TENNYSON Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dyi...
ALFRED TENNYSON What hope is here for modern rhyme
To him, who turns a musing eye
On songs, and deeds, and...
ALFRED TENNYSON Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be…
And thou, O Lord...
ALFRED TENNYSON A beam in darkness: let it grow.
ALFRED TENNYSON I falter where I firmly trod,
And falling with my weight of cares
Upon the great world's...
ALFRED TENNYSON And what delights can equal those
That stir the spirit's inner deeps,
When one that loves ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street,
Doors, where my h...
ALFRED TENNYSON Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins ...
ALFRED TENNYSON In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold
ALFRED TENNYSON I hold it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise o...
ALFRED TENNYSON There rolls the deep where grew the tree.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
There wh...
ALFRED TENNYSON I sometimes find it half a sin,
To put to words the grief i feel,
For words like nature,ha...
ALFRED TENNYSON In Memoriam A.H.H. Section 5
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words t...
ALFRED TENNYSON Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going...
ALFRED TENNYSON I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved a...
ALFRED TENNYSON Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick
And tingle; a...
ALFRED TENNYSON T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sou...
ALFRED TENNYSON There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
ALFRED TENNYSON So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.
ALFRED TENNYSON So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED TENNYSON Half the night I waste in sighs,
Half in dreams I sorrow after
The delight of early skies;...
ALFRED TENNYSON To many-towered Camelot
ALFRED TENNYSON To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ALFRED TENNYSON Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON God's finger touched him, and he slept.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Love is the only gold.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON By blood a king, in heart a clown.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Believe me, than in half the creeds.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A day may sink or save a realm.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There's no glory like those who save their country.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Authority forgets a dying king.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost T...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON It little profits that an idle king,By this still hearth, among these barren crags,Matchd with an ag...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moo...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wond...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The older order changeth, yielding place to new,And God fulfils himself in many ways,Lest one good c...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I hold it true, whateer befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;Tis better to have loved and lostThan n...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON God's finger touched him and he slept.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Death is the end of life; ah why
Should life all labour be? . . .
All things have rest, and ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON One still strong man in a blatant land,
whatever they call him, what care I,
Aristocrat, democ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Either sex alone is half itself.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's
pain--
Nature made them blinder mo...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast,
Full of sad experience, moving ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in or...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog,...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A louse in the locks of literature.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Faith lives in honest doubt.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in m...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The greater person is one of courtesy.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I hold it true,what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lo...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ours not to reason why
Ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Better not be at all than not be noble.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, dem...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There's no glory like those who save their country.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little lon...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And ye talk together still,
In the language wherewith Spring
Letters cowslips on the hill.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And so the Word had breath, and wrought
With human hands the creed of creeds
In loveliness of ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON And every dew-drop paints a bow.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON O Blackbird! sing me something well:
While all the neighbors shoot thee round,
I keep smooth ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Authority forgets a dying king,
Laid widow'd of the power in his eye
That bow'd the will.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls.
A noise...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke:
"Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."
"Th...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Their meetings made December June.
Their every parting was to die.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The sabbaths of Eternity.
One sabbath deep and wide.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Red ruin and the breaking-up of all.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call;
It was when the moon was setting, and the d...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the
May.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul
Of that waste place with joy
Hidden in sorrow: at fi...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON He clasps the crag with hooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Gone--flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON . . . but while
I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me,
And smiles at my best mea...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The great world's altar stairs
That slope through darkness up to God.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Then the face of night is fair in the dewy downs
And the shining daffodil dies.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And feet like sunny gems on an English green.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay
Till the end o' the daay
An the last load hoam.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Some full-breasted swan
That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,
Ruffles her pure cold plume,...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak
And stared with his foot on the prey.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON A savior of the silver-coasted isle.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity:
The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,
An...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON When cats run home and light is come,
And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far-off stream ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens?
If all the world were falcons, what of that?
The ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade
Glitter like a swarm of fireflies ta...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all,
For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And oft I heard the tender dove
In firry woodlands making moan.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke
From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood,
And ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON I heard . . .
. . . the great echo flap
And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Fancy light from Fancy caught.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the w...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands
That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON We keep the day. With festal cheer,
With books and music, surely we
Will drink to him, whate'...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON