Alfred, Lord Tennyson quotes - page 5

First pledge our Queen this solemn night, Then drink to England, every guest; That man's the best Cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Fires that shook me once, but now to silent ashes fall'n away. Cold upon the dead volcano sleeps the gleam of dying day. View quote
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My God, I would not live Save that I think this gross hard-seeming world Is our misshaping vision of the Powers Behind the world, that make our griefs our gains. View quote
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A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee: Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. View quote
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It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. View quote
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A breath that fleets beyond this iron world And touches him who made it. View quote
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Well, Gosse, would you like to know what I think of Churton Collins? I think he's a Louse on the Locks of Literature. View quote
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You sought to prove how I could love, And my disdain is my reply. The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I. View quote
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Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls, Come hither, the dances are done, In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls, Queen lily and rose in one; Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun. View quote
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Slav, Teuton, Kelt, I count them all My friends and brother souls, With all the peoples, great and small, That wheel between the poles. View quote
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At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away: "Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!" Then sware Lord Thomas Howard: "'Fore God I am no coward; But I cannot meet them here, for my ships are out of gear, And the half my men are sick. I must fly, but follow quick. We are six ships of the line; can we fight with fifty-three?" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen; One praised her ankles, one her eyes, One her dark hair and lovesome mien. So sweet a face, such angel grace, In all that land had never been. Cophetua sware a royal oath: "This beggar maid shall be my queen!" View quote
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O eyes long laid in happy sleep! O happy sleep, that lightly fled! O happy kiss, that woke thy sleep! O love, thy kiss would wake the dead! View quote
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To do him any wrong was to beget A kindness from him, for his heart was rich- Of such fine mould that if you sowed therein The seed of Hate, it blossomed Charity. View quote
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Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. View quote
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. View quote
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. View quote
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A day may sink or save a realm. View quote
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Who are wise in love, love most, say least. View quote
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Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was to love. View quote
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Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
As the husband is, the wife is. View quote
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By blood a king, in heart a clown. View quote
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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. View quote
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What is it that will last? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. View quote
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