So much to do, so little done, such things to be.


Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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God's finger touched him, and he slept.
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Believe me, than in half the creeds.
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In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
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A day may sink or save a realm.
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The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
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Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moo...
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O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
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One still strong man in a blatant land,
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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
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Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
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Either sex alone is half itself.
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A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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Faith lives in honest doubt.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
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Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
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The greater person is one of courtesy.
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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
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Ours not to reason why
Ours but to do and die.
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
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Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
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Better not be at all than not be noble.
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Till last by Philip's farm I flow
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
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A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
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The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
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That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
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And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring Letters cowslips on the hill.
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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
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And every dew-drop paints a bow.
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O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth ...
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.
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Their meetings made December June. Their every parting was to die.
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The sabbaths of Eternity. One sabbath deep and wide.
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Red ruin and the breaking-up of all.
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For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
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The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at fi...
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He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure ...
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Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a...
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. . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best mea...
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The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.
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Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
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Then the face of night is fair in the dewy downs And the shining daffodil dies.
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And feet like sunny gems on an English green.
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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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Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume,...
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The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.
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A savior of the silver-coasted isle.
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Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode, An...
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When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream ...
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Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies ta...
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
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Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all, For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine...
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And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the ...
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And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood, And ...
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I heard . . . . . . the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.
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Fancy light from Fancy caught.
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For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the w...
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And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
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And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every ...
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Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
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Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
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Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.
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Darker than darkest pansies.
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A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing...
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I do sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.
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Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea.
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And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel.
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'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
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The greater man the greater courtesy.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
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Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.
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Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
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Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days.
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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
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In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine.
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And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper ...
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When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush.
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No little lily-handed Baronet he,/ A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,/ A lord of fat prize-...
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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