Alfred, Lord Tennyson quotes - page 4

Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore; Than labour in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar; Oh rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
I am a part of all I have met. View quote
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Half light, half shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young. View quote
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The mirror cracked from side to side 'The curse is come upon me', cried The Lady of Shalott. View quote
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Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. View quote
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Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver; Thro' the wave that runs for ever; By the island in the river. View quote
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He makes no friends who never made a foe. View quote
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There is no joy but calm. View quote
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She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not,' she said; She said, I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead.' View quote
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Robin: No man who truly loves and truly rules His following but can keep his followers true. I am one with mine. Traitors are rarely bred Save under traitor kings. View quote
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Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. View quote
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I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. View quote
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Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. View quote
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At length I saw a lady within call, Stiller than chisell'd marble, standing there; A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair. View quote
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Have I not found a happy earth? I least should breathe a thought of pain. Would God renew me from my birth I'd almost live my life again. So sweet it seems with thee to walk, And once again to woo thee mine - It seems in after-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine -. View quote
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Here and there a cotter's babe is royal-born by right divine; Here and there my lord is lower than his oxen or his swine. View quote
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She clad herself in a russet gown, She was no longer Lady Clare: She went by dale, and she went by down, With a single rose in her hair.The lily-white doe Lord Ronald had brought Leapt up from where she lay. Dropped her head in the maiden's hand. And followed her all the way. View quote
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Perfectly beautiful: let it be granted her: where is the fault? All that I saw (for her eyes were downcast, not to be seen) Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more. View quote
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For Knowledge is the swallow on the lake That sees and stirs the surface-shadow there But never yet hath dipt into the abysm. View quote
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Then spake Sir Richard Grenville: "I know you are no coward; You fly them for a moment to fight with them again. But I've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore. I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard, To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain." (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Once at the croak of a Raven who crost it, A barbarous people, Blind to the magic, And deaf to the melody, Snarl'd at and cursed me. A demon vext me, The light retreated, The landskip darken'd, The melody deaden'd, The Master whisper'd ‘Follow The Gleam.' View quote
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Remember that sore saying spoken once By Him that was the Truth, 'How hard it is For the rich man to enter into heaven!' Let all rich men remember that hard word. View quote
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Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone; And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. View quote
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Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred. View quote
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