Alfred, Lord Tennyson quotes - page 12

We dare not even by silence sanction lies. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
The great brand Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon. View quote
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A spring rich and strange, Shall make the winds blow Round and round, Thro' and thro', Here and there, Till the air And the ground Shall be fill'd with life anew. 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 looked down to Camelot. View quote
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The trance gave way To those caresses, when a hundred times In that last kiss, which never was the last, Farewell, like endless welcome, lived and died. View quote
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Yea, let all good things await Him who cares not to be great But as he saves or serves the state. Not once or twice in our rough island-story The path of duty was the way to glory. View quote
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Come forth I charge thee, arise, Thou of the many tongues, the myriad eyes! View quote
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Thou who stealest fire, From the fountains of the past, To glorify the present; oh, haste, Visit my low desire! Strengthen me, enlighten me! View quote
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. View quote
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Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labour be? View quote
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Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Thus truth was multiplied on truth. View quote
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But am I not the nobler thro' thy love? O three times less unworthy! likewise thou Art more thro' Love, and greater than thy years. View quote
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Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. View quote
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Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? View quote
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Oh, to what uses shall we put The wildweed-flower that simply blows? And is there any moral shut Within the bosom of the rose? View quote
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Strike up a song, my friends, and then to bed. View quote
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In sweet dreams softer than unbroken rest Thou leddest by the hand thine infant Hope. View quote
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And Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise Her beautiful bold brow, When rites and forms before his burning eyes Melted like snow. View quote
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Heard a carol, mournful, holy, Chanted loudly, chanted lowly, Till her blood was frozen slowly, And her eyes were darkened wholly, Turn'd to tower'd Camelot. View quote
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Yet fill my glass: give me one kiss: My own sweet Alice, we must die. There's somewhat in this world amiss Shall be unriddled by and by. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest we rust in ease. View quote
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Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence. View quote
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With youthful fancy reinspired, We may hold converse with all forms Of the many-sided mind, And those whom passion hath not blinded, Subtle-thoughted, myriad-minded. View quote
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Where Claribel low-lieth The breezes pause and die, Letting the rose-leaves fall. View quote
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