Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.


Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't na...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and m...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
No little lily-handed Baronet he,/ A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,/ A lord of fat prize-...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
And so the Word had breath, and wrought/ With human hands the creed of creeds/ In loveliness of perf...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
And is there any moral shut/ Within the bosom of the rose?
ALFRED LORD 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
Who loves not a false imagining, an unreal character in us; but looking through all the rubbish of o...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Time driveth onward fast,/ And in a little while our lips are dumb./ Let us alone. What is it that w...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Birds in the high Hall-garden/ When twilight was falling,/ Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud,/ They were crying...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Ring out false pride in blood and place,/ The civic slander and the spite.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Live and lie reclined/ On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die
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
A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea,/ But never a moment ceased th...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight d...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
This gray spirit yearning in desire/ To follow knowledge like a sinking star,/ Beyond the utmost bou...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Once he drew-with one long kiss-My whole soul through his lips.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
For what are men better than sheep or goats/ That nourish a blind life within the brain,/ If, knowin...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
God gives us love. Something to love/ He lends us; but, when love is grown/ To ripeness that on whic...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,/ Tears from the depth of some divine despair.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Nourishing a youth sublime/ With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Believing where we cannot prove.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
The woman is so hard upon the woman
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
I am a part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravell...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON