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• Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?
  I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Harps, Strings

  Lord Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”

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• The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, House, Soul

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “By An Evolutionist”

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• Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Feet, British, Staring

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 13, st. 2

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• There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Stars, Sun

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.655, Delphi Classics

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• Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Faith, Jesus, Strong

  1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., prologue, l.1-4.

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• An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Twilight, Order, Tree

  'The Palace of Art' (1832) st. 22

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• All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Dust, Way

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.527, Delphi Classics

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• I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Race, Savages

  "Locksley Hall" l. 168 (1842)

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• The time draws near the birth of Christ;
  The moon is hid; the night is still;
  The Christmas bells from hill to hill
  Answer each other in the mist.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Christmas, Healing, Moon

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.116, Broadview Press

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• Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Goal, Finals, Ill

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 54

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• Love is hurt with jar and fret;
  Love is made a vague regret.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Hurt, Regret

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Jealous, Thinking, Fool

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• Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Littles

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Marriage of Geraint' (1859) l. 352

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• God gives us love. Something to love
  He lends us; but when love is grown
  To ripeness, that on which it throve
  Falls off, and love is left alone.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Life, Fall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2607, Delphi Classics

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• By shaping some august decree,
  Which kept her throne unshaken still,
  Broad-based upon her people's will,
  And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sea, People, Broads

  "Fifty Poems".

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• I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  House, Soul, Ease

  'The Palace of Art' (1832) st. 1

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• The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Death, Lying

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 1

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• Oh good gray head which all men knew!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Gray

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Singing, Pipe

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.734, Delphi Classics

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• This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Truth, Mind, Boundless

  'The Two Voices' (1842) st. 9

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• There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Science, Clouds, Sea

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.845, Delphi Classics

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• It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, May, Achilles

  "Ulysses" l. 59 (1842)

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• I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Priests, Delicate, Heard

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 8

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• The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Song, Heart

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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• Tho' much is taken, much abides.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Gratitude, Taken, Skyfall

  "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

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