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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pain--
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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 A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every ... ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ring out the false, ring in the true. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.' ALFRED LORD TENNYSON No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost T... ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the wort... ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his pass... ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passio... ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Ah! well away!
Seasons flower and fade. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Darker than darkest pansies. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON A life of nothing's nothing worth,
From that first nothing ere his birth,
To that last nothing... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON I do sing because I must,
And pipe but as the linnets sing. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And there they placed a peacock in his pride,
Before the damsel. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The greater man the greater courtesy. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Steps with a tender foot, light as on air,
The lovely, lordly creature floated on. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Trust me not at all, or all in all. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passio... ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 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