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O earth, what changes hast thou seen!


Alfred Lord Tennyson

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O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
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ALFRED TENNYSON My Lord, my Lord! What hast Thou done, lately?
WOODY ALLEN And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: becau...
BIBLE Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in the...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Go thy way, and tell my people, the people of thy Lord God what manner of things, and how great wond...
COMPTON GAGE O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my...
BIBLE Thou hast conquered, O Galilaean. [Lat., Vicisti, Galloloae.]
GEORGE HERBERT Thou hast seen nothing yet.
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Thou hast seen nothing yet.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA A beam in darkness: let it grow.
ALFRED TENNYSON Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast red...
SAINT AMBROSE Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; t...
BIBLE Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that h...
BIBLE Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine...
MATTHEW ARNOLD O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!
THOMAS DE QUINCEY ("THE OPIUM EATER") Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
BIBLE And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast ...
BIBLE Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with...
BIBLE For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou has tried us, as silver is tried. Psalms 66:10
BIBLE There rolls the deep where grew the tree.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
There wh...
ALFRED TENNYSON Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his h...
BIBLE If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
BIBLE Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; / The lips of those t...
BIBLE Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be herea...
BIBLE O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according ...
BIBLE O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.
CHARLES SPURGEON And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulf...
BIBLE Jesus! why dost Thou love me so? What hast Thou seen in me To make my happiness so great, So dear...
FREDRICK WILLIAM FABER O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?
THOMAS CAMPBELL O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?
THOMAS CAMPBELL Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
BIBLE Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
BIBLE Think not so much of what thou hast not, as of what thou hast; but of the things which thou hast sel...
MARCUS AURELIUS LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was ...
BIBLE His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a fe...
BIBLE And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast sp...
BIBLE O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dare...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which prod...
JULES VERNE What mare's nest hast thou found?
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so--ex...
RUDYARD KIPLING O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no...
JOHN MILTON Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, an...
BIBLE And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
BIBLE Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever...
BIBLE Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive.
BIBLE As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
BIBLE As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
BIBLE Thou hast been called, O Sleep! The friend of woe; But 'tis the happy that have called thee so
ROBERT SOUTHEY O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and eve...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
BIBLE What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye hav...
BIBLE Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit...
BIBLE And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baal...
BIBLE O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate m...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy s...
BIBLE Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed ...
ROBERT BURNS Count no woman wise, until thou hast received a letter from her hand; but love none thou hast not se...
FRANK GELETT BURGESS Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for th...
BIBLE My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my &#...
DEBBIE MACOMBER O villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and my name! The one ne'er got me credit, the other m...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an...
BIBLE Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
BIBLE O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
SIR JACOB ASTLEY Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread; Thou hast proud fanes above Thy might...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Deep unto deep, O Lord, Crieth in me, Gathering strength I come, Lord, unto Thee. Jesus of ...
AMY CARMICHAEL Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
BIBLE By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I ...
BIBLE By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I c...
BIBLE Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou a...
BIBLE As thou hast sown, so shalt thou reap.
PINARIUS For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance...
BIBLE Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again...
BIBLE But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom th...
BIBLE But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
BIBLE O, with what freshness,
what solemnity and beauty,
is each new day born;
as if to say...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
BIBLE Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god t...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Thanksgiving (U.S.) I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all time...
JOHN BAILLIE The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unt...
BIBLE Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as ...
BIBLE Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the g...
BIBLE And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in th...
BIBLE Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes And interchanged love tokens with my child; T...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Do Good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
WILLIAM PENN Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the...
BIBLE Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, ho...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
BIBLE Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the gro...
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LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
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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.
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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.
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LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
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LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for...
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