Alfred, Lord Tennyson quotes - page 10

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer. View quote
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And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old. View quote
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A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day. View quote
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me. View quote
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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower. View quote
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God make thee good as thou art beautiful. View quote
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Like glimpses of forgotten dreams. View quote
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Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark; And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place; The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face; When I have crost t. View quote
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I am going a long way With these thou sestif indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound. View quote
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Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel Streaming eyes and breaking hearts Or all the same as if he had not been. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
His honour rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. View quote
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For man is man and master of his fate. View quote
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Nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time. View quote
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That man's the true Conservative Who lops the moulder'd branch away. View quote
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Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. View quote
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Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds. View quote
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My mind is clouded with a doubt. View quote
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It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. View quote
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I waited for the train at Coventry I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this. View quote
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She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She look'd down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack'd from side to side; "The curse is come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all But her thou hast not know for what is this Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself. View quote
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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. View quote
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A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair. View quote
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In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. View quote
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