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• The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Sick, Shadow

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.55

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• O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  May, Neighbor, Smooth

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Forgiveness, Hate, Forgiving

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1240, Delphi Classics

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• Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Weed, Flower, Earth

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• To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.

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  Passion, Men, Years

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 472

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• What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heresy

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1767, Delphi Classics

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• She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Lying, Heart

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• Nature, red in tooth and claw.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Science, Law

  In Memoriam canto 56 (1850)

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• All Life needs for life is possible to will.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Needs, Life Is

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon: Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, Sweet, Father

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 3, song (added 1850)

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• There she weaves by night and day, A magic web with colors gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay, To look down to Camelot. She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care hath she, The Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Gay, Night, Color

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.998, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Women, Flower, Simple

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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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

  Mirrors, Water Lily, Cracks

  'The Lady of Shalott' (1832, revised 1842) pt. 3

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• And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dove, Heard, Woodland

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Fire, Light

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.295, Delphi Classics

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• I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Drink, All Time, Enjoyed

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• Woman is the lesser man.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Women, Men

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Drink

  "Ulysses" l. 6 (1842)

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• The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

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  Children, Motherhood, Training

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.679, Delphi Classics

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• Every man at time of Death,
  Would fain set forth some saying that may live
  After his death and better humankind;
  For death gives life's last word a power to live,
  And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
  After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Lying, Cutting

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.204

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• We needs must love the highest when we see it.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, Needs, Highest

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 652

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• So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Gold, Arms

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.916, Delphi Classics

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• Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying

  Lord Alfred Tennyson (2012). “Tennyson: Poems”, p.201, Everyman's Library

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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

  Stars, Sunset, Order

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 44

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• But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strong, Age, Ashes

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1255, Delphi Classics

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