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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Roots, Tree, Merit

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And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Night, Purple, World

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

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Ah, why Should life all labour be?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life, Should, Labour

'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 4

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The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life, Dream, Prayer

Idylls of the King "The Passing of Arthur" l. 408 (1869) See Bailey 1; George H. W. Bush 7; George H. W. Bush 10; George H. W. Bush 12; Martin Luther King 1

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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Speech

'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 23

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Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Kindness, Wind, Kind

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O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sweet, Blow, Echoes

1850 The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 2.

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The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men, Together, Causes

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.90, Broadview Press

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What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Prayer, Men, Sheep

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

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Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

School, Hands, Names

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

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On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

God, Signatures, Half

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The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.

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Sweet, Past, Fields

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

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Heart, Dust, Sparks

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

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I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Home, Blood, Long

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Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere?
Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Pain, Grateful, People

"Locksley Hall Sixty Years After". Pome by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1886.

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Shall the hag Evil die with the child of Good, Or propagate again her loathèd kind, Thronging the cells of the diseased mind, Hateful with hanging cheeks, a withered brood, Though hourly pastured on the salient blood?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Children, Cells, Blood

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Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sweet, Regret, First Love

'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 31, song (added 1850)

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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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Food, Rocks, Cooking

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.431, Delphi Classics

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Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

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Suicide, Crazy, Sorrow

'The Two Voices' (1842) st. 132

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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

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Country, Men, Cosmopolitanism

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.575, Delphi Classics

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