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• Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, World, Sparrows

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.216, Broadview Press

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• He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Friendship, Justice, Judging

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1243, Delphi Classics

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• . . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Prayer

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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• Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

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  Music, Sweet, Voice

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 7, l. 203, song (added 1850)

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• A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Sorrow, Crowns

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 75.

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• The white flower of a blameless life.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Flower, White

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) Dedication (1862) l. 24

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• What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Fancy, Matter

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Faith, Heart, Simple

  "Lady Clara Vere de Vere" l. 55 (1842)

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• Follow the deer? Follow the Christ the King. Live pure, speak true,right wrong, Follow the King-- Else, wherefore born?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Kings, Deer, Speak

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Gareth and Lynette' (1872) l. 117

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• It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fall, May, Life Is

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sorrow, Despair, Unrest

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.54, Broadview Press

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• Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Grief, Forgiving, Found

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Professor Norman Page (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.102, Routledge

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• So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  So Sad

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 30, song (added 1850)

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• I am any man's suitor,
  If any will be my tutor:
  Some say this life is pleasant,
  Some think it speedeth fast,
  In time there is no present,
  In eternity no future,
  In eternity no past.
  We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
  Who will riddle me the how and the why?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Past, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Rain, Sky, Rainbow

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Coming of Arthur' (1869) l. 402

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• The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Smell, Soul, Green

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.83, Cambridge University Press

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• Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Anchors, Care, Casts

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1201, Delphi Classics

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• There's no glory like those who save their country.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Country, Glory

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• Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spirit, Efficiency, Cricket

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• I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

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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. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Morning, Moving

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 1

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• Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Men, Hands

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• My mind is clouded with a doubt.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Doubt, Mind, Clouded

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 424

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• Lady, for indeed
  I loved you and I deemed you beautiful,
  I cannot brook to see your beauty marred
  Through evil spite: and if ye love me not,
  I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn:
  I had liefer ye were worthy of my love,
  Than to be loved again of you - farewell;
  And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love,
  Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1133, Delphi Classics

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• Faith lives in honest doubt.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Faith, Feelings, Doubt

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