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• Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths;
  Love laps his wings on either side the heart
  Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts,
  So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Heart, Deep Love

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• O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Kissing, Fire

  'Fatima' (1832) st. 3

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• The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Done, World, Earth

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.92, Broadview Press

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• Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

  In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

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• Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Soldier, Reason Why, Reason

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• And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Cells, Years

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

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• The quiet sense of something lost

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Quiet, Lost

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.94, Broadview Press

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• My doom is, I love thee still.
  Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wisdom, Men, Wisest Man

  "Pome by Alfred Lord Tennyson". Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1886.

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• Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Crowds, Gleam, Canvas

  'Merlin and The Gleam' (1889) st. 9

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• Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Sweet, Pain

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• The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Voice

  'In the Valley of Cauteretz' (1864)

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• And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Knights, Mirrors, Blue

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.43, Broadview Press

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• He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
  Close to the sun in lonely lands,
  Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
  The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
  He watches from his mountain walls,
  And like a thunderbolt he falls.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lonely, Wall, Fall

  "The Eagle" l. 1 (1851)

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• No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strength, Perseverance, Years

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.649, Delphi Classics

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• The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Smart, Wise Words, Vow

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1156, Delphi Classics

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• The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Morning, Stars, Golden

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1327, Delphi Classics

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• The many fail: the one succeeds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Succeed, Failing

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

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• Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Flower, Learning, Weight

  In Memoriam epilogue, st. 10 (1850)

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• And on her lover's arm she leant,
  And round her waist she felt it fold,
  And far across the hills they went
  In that new world which is the old.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, World, Arms

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

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• All things human change.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Change, Humans, All Things

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1198, Delphi Classics

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• If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Flower, Hours

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Sad, Lying

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2331, Delphi Classics

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• I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Grief, Soul

  1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 5, l.1-8.

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• As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hate, Love Is, Perfect

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1047, Delphi Classics

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