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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Kings, Heart, Blood

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It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Moon, Planets, Rate

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Shall love be blamed for want of faith?

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Love Is, Want

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.132, Broadview Press

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What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

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Gleam, Ants, Sun

1889 'Vastness', stanza 2, l.4.

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Come, Time, and teach me many years,
I do not suffer in dream;
For now so strange do these things seem,
Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.

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Dream, Time, Eye

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.50, Broadview Press

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Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower-but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, all in all,
I should know what God and man is.

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Nature, Wall, Spring

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.1039, Cosimo, Inc.

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This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

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Science, Men, Light

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.636, Delphi Classics

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From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

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Smile, Heart, Simple

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

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Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

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Death, War, Poetry

"The Charge of the Light Brigade" l. 1 (1854)

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O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!

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Love, Orange, Land

'The Daisy' (1855) st. 1

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Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.

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Love, Hate, Scorn

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2492, Delphi Classics

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O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

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Love, Blow, Sky

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

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Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.

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Brother, Men, Done

'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 117

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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.

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Beauty, Hands, Walking Hand In Hand

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

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Ocean, Sea, Stones

"Break, Break, Break" l. 1 (1842)

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Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

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Plato, Mean, Men

'Lucretius' (1868) l. 145

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Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.

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Flower, Wells, Fades

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I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

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Dust, Age, Deeds

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.

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Flames, Atheism, Green

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.120, Broadview Press

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Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.

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Lying, Clouds, House

'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 8 (1842 revision)

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I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.

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Cat, Blue, Owl

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Holy Grail' (1869) l. 862

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There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

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Sea, Water, Silence

'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 19

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O last regret, regret can die!

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Regret, Lasts, Dies

'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 78

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The noonday quiet holds the hill.

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Quiet, Hills, Calmness

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers;
Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.

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Faith, Want, Equal

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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