That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.


Alfred Tennyson

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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little lon...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring Letters cowslips on the hill.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
And every dew-drop paints a bow.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls. A noise...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we." "Th...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Their meetings made December June. Their every parting was to die.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
The sabbaths of Eternity. One sabbath deep and wide.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Red ruin and the breaking-up of all.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the d...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at fi...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
. . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best mea...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Then the face of night is fair in the dewy downs And the shining daffodil dies.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And feet like sunny gems on an English green.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay Till the end o' the daay An the last load hoam.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume,...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
A savior of the silver-coasted isle.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode, An...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies ta...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all, For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood, And ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
I heard . . . . . . the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Fancy light from Fancy caught.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the w...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON