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That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.


Alfred Tennyson

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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