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Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Lonely, Loneliness, Ancient

'Mariana' (1830) st. 1.

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After-dinner talk
Across the walnuts and the wine.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wine, Dinner, Walnuts

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

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Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine,
Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Passion, Wine, Men

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

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She has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Grace, Lovely, Faces

1832 Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised 1842), pt.4, l.168-71.

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In the afternoon they came unto a land
In which it seemed always afternoon.
All round the coast the languid air did swoon,
Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dream, Air, Land

1832 Poems,'The Lotos - Eaters', l.1-6.

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

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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.

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Summer, Death, Lying

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

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Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

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Fire, Clouds, West

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.51, Broadview Press

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We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.

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Hate, Self, Heaven

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1993, Delphi Classics

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A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.

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Summer, Ice, Sea

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.943, Delphi Classics

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In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

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Men, Years, Long

Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Princess (Part 7)”

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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

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Running, Flower, May

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

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All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.

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Fate, Issues, Veils

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.128, Cambridge University Press

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The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.

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Dream, Dark, Men

Alfred Lord Tennyson (2004). “Selected Poems”, p.142, Penguin UK

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The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

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Heart, Vices, Passionate

'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 4, st. 7

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I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

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Valleys, Ferns, Sparkle

'The Brook' (1855) l. 23

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I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.

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Light, Air, Perfect

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 640

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Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

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Girl, Queens, Women

'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 9

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But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Book, Squares, Looks

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Merlin and Vivien' (1859) l. 667

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It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

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Needs, Pleasure, Profit

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

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France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

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Men, Light, Blood

1886 'Locksley Hall Sixty Years After', l.89-90.

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The last great Englishman is low.

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Lasts, Lows, Englishmen

'Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington' (1852) st. 3

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Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.

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Men, Dies, Happy Man

'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 70

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

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Priests, Delicate, Heard

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

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I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

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Profit, Humans, Knows

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.96, Broadview Press

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Born: August 5, 1809
Died: October 6, 1892
Occupation: Poet
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