Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
Alfred Tennyson
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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 To understand and make sense of the ripples that are made we must understand what effects our own ac...
GARY F EVANS... Ours not to reason why
Ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.
ILONA ANDREWS When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,...
EURIPIDES Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A beam in darkness: let it grow.
ALFRED TENNYSON Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours
RODMAN PHILBRICK The gods do not grant miracles for our purposes, but for theirs. If you are become their tool, it is...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD But whose problem is it when you make people talk about you?"
"Theirs.
YIYUN LI Why do you hand out hugs for free, while everyone around you holds theirs like treasures?
MARK IBRAHIM They pump the water from the road. But they don't fix the problem. The city says it's not theirs; th...
LARRY LOPEZ Everybody knows how others should do their jobs - but they don't know how to do theirs.
NABIL N. JAMAL Returns righteous people what's theirs and deprives sinners what isn't theirs.
VáLGAME to split the very sea into ours and theirs." Border at the Beach
And More White Sheets
EILEEN GRANFORS Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Youngsters tend to save the whole world
while their parents struggle to save theirs.
TOBA BETA to fight for each minute is to
fight for what is possible within
yourself,
so that y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him...
LAUREN OLIVER The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.
MAAZA MENGISTE With the Latino community, I am theirs, I do belong to them.
JENNIFER LOPEZ We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abando...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Most times the rich & the poor do have same initial capital,while the poor use theirs for luxury,the...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We both know... that soon everything is going to end...
...
This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
ENGLISH PROVERB She was no longer theirs.
She was his.
And he was hers.
And this w...
MICHAEL GRANT The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.
PROVERB Learn from your mistakes but expect your enemies to learn from theirs.
SALLY GREEN Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
STEPHEN COVEY To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They'r...
PAMELA PAUL Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say?
Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,
In suc...
CHARLES CHURCHILL Meal ran to theirs (moving averages) but failed, and beans didn't even really get close.
JOHN KLEIST Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE The rich & the poor have got same 24hrs, the rich treasure theirs, while the poor untreasure theirs
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I spoil my children rotten and hope to leave them enough so they can do the same to theirs.
CHARLES SAATCHI The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtle...
FRANS DE WAAL I wonder what language truck drivers are using,
now that everyone is using theirs?
BERYL PFIZER (The Bears) should have been matching our intensity. But we had to match theirs.
A'QUONESIA FRANKLIN But fame is theirs - and future days
On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell - w...
PHILIP FRENEAU Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see...
MATTHEW FOX The friends I made have slipped and strayed.
And who's the one that cares
A trifling lot and...
DOROTHY PARKER Self-esteem is the garden in which passion bears success flowers. Most people can’t stand out to s...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Why do you give your love and soul to people who don’t wish for you to be alive?Why do you hand ou...
MARK IBRAHIM What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Do not be discouraged, when those around you, can't see your vision/dreams\goals. Remember it is you...
PHILIP T. M. Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD They want a common platform, but I'm not sure all the applications on that platform will be theirs.
ELIZABETH HERRELL Goods are theirs that enjoy them.
GEORGE HERBERT Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no lon...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our shooting went a little cold and theirs didn't.
JASON TARLETON We all have our limitations, but when we give in to our critics, we also have theirs.
ROBERT BRAULT We're not at the same place as the county. Our system has not matured to the point theirs has.
ANDY NEFF Those planning marriage should be prepared to accommodate characters alien to theirs.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When people try to rain on your parade,...pee on theirs
JOSH STERN Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes ...
WILL ROGERS I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my col...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE All beauteous things for which we live
By laws of time and space decay.
But oh, the very rea...
WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY We didn't do any of the little things well tonight. Every loose ball was theirs.
CHRIS ZWETTLER We know all the teams from here on out are good, and we need to play our game, not theirs.
HOSEA BERKLEY The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersectin...
HARRY SEIDLER Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' p...
RICHARD BACH It would be an outstanding accomplishment to achieve this standard. But the credit is not all theirs...
BRENT NEWELL The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than th...
J.D. SALINGER Did you really want to die?"
"No one commits suicide because they want to die."
"Then why ...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO These spots are theirs, ... They've got to beat them out for them.
BEN PHILLIPS We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
BILL CLINTON Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
LINTON KWESI JOHNSON But such as open their breast to unbelief on them is Wrath from Allah and theirs will be a dreadful ...
QURAN Do not trust a person without scars. If they have no scars, then it means someone else is wearing th...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU You were the dead; theirs was the future.
GEORGE ORWELL Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei...
EDWARD VARESE Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind thei...
EDGARD VARESE Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind thei...
EDGARD VARESE It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelin...
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CHRIS CORNELL Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs
MEIR EZRA Never be frightened to take a profit. Better in your pocket then theirs.
MICHAEL LEVY An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
EDGARD VARESE We are not going to die."
Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?...
JIM BUTCHER Alfred, I need ice and that vitamin K goop. To the nursery. Stat."
"I loathe you, Master ...
TIFFANY REISZ They (Israelis) destroyed our homes and our mosques, ... Today it is our turn to destroy theirs.
ABU AHMED So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill,
And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill.
JOHN DRYDEN In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If y...
RUDYARD KIPLING Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.
ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO Wise teachers impart their knowledge; inept ones impose theirs
LEONARD ROY FRANK Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Their attack is really good. Just for us to have the ball in our hands means its not in theirs.
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EDGARD VARèSE But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?"
"I'm not human," he sai...
RACHEL HARTMAN If you don't build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs.
TONY A. GASKINS JR.
More Alfred Tennyson
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
ALFRED TENNYSON No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED TENNYSON I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED TENNYSON O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight...
ALFRED TENNYSON The quiet sense of something lost
ALFRED TENNYSON If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than t...
ALFRED TENNYSON That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,/ But a lie which is part a truth ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Not the schoolboy heat,/ The blind hysterics of the Celt.
ALFRED TENNYSON Time driveth onward fast,/ And in a little while our lips are dumb./ Let us alone. What is it that w...
ALFRED TENNYSON Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED TENNYSON The vow that binds too strictly snaps, itself
ALFRED TENNYSON Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power
ALFRED TENNYSON She has heard a whisper say,/ A curse is on her if she stay/ To look down to Camelot.
ALFRED TENNYSON So, friend, when I first looked upon your face, our thoughts gave answer each to each. Opposed mirro...
ALFRED TENNYSON A happy bridesmaid makes a happy bride.
ALFRED TENNYSON And down I went to fetch my bride:
But, Alice, you were ill at ease;
This dress and that b...
ALFRED TENNYSON Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depths of some devine despair
ALFRED TENNYSON The mirror crack'd from side to side
"The curse has come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalo...
ALFRED TENNYSON I will drink life to the lees.
ALFRED TENNYSON She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.
ALFRED TENNYSON Never, oh! never, nothing will die;
The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleet...
ALFRED TENNYSON The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.
ALFRED TENNYSON Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
ALFRED TENNYSON Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days ALFRED TENNYSON Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.
ALFRED TENNYSON Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED TENNYSON Let me go: take back thy gift:
Why should a man desire in any way
To vary from the kindly ...
ALFRED TENNYSON But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,
And beat me down and marr’d and wasted m...
ALFRED TENNYSON Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell.
ALFRED TENNYSON She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mars, That marvellous round of milky light Below Orion, and thos...
ALFRED TENNYSON So runs my dream, but what am I?
An infant crying in the night
An infant crying for the li...
ALFRED TENNYSON I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
ALFRED TENNYSON He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED TENNYSON There rolls the deep where grew the tree
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
There where...
ALFRED TENNYSON When in the down I sink my head,
Sleep, Death's twin-brother, times my breath;
Sleep, Deat...
ALFRED TENNYSON Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle ; and the...
ALFRED TENNYSON So word by word, and line by line,
The dead man touch'd me from the past,
And all at once ...
ALFRED TENNYSON But I remain'd, whose hopes were dim,
Whose life, whose thoughts were little worth,
To wan...
ALFRED TENNYSON My own dim life should teach me this,
That life shall live for evermore,
Else earth is dar...
ALFRED TENNYSON That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morn...
ALFRED TENNYSON Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds,
At last he beat his music out.
There lives more fait...
ALFRED TENNYSON Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dyi...
ALFRED TENNYSON What hope is here for modern rhyme
To him, who turns a musing eye
On songs, and deeds, and...
ALFRED TENNYSON Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be…
And thou, O Lord...
ALFRED TENNYSON A beam in darkness: let it grow.
ALFRED TENNYSON I falter where I firmly trod,
And falling with my weight of cares
Upon the great world's...
ALFRED TENNYSON And was the day of my delight
As pure and perfect as I say?
ALFRED TENNYSON And what delights can equal those
That stir the spirit's inner deeps,
When one that loves ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street,
Doors, where my h...
ALFRED TENNYSON Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins ...
ALFRED TENNYSON In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold
ALFRED TENNYSON I hold it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise o...
ALFRED TENNYSON There rolls the deep where grew the tree.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
There wh...
ALFRED TENNYSON I sometimes find it half a sin,
To put to words the grief i feel,
For words like nature,ha...
ALFRED TENNYSON In Memoriam A.H.H. Section 5
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words t...
ALFRED TENNYSON Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going...
ALFRED TENNYSON I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved a...
ALFRED TENNYSON Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick
And tingle; a...
ALFRED TENNYSON T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sou...
ALFRED TENNYSON There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
ALFRED TENNYSON So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.
ALFRED TENNYSON So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED TENNYSON Half the night I waste in sighs,
Half in dreams I sorrow after
The delight of early skies;...
ALFRED TENNYSON To many-towered Camelot
ALFRED TENNYSON To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ALFRED TENNYSON Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON God's finger touched him, and he slept.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Love is the only gold.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON By blood a king, in heart a clown.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Believe me, than in half the creeds.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A day may sink or save a realm.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There's no glory like those who save their country.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Authority forgets a dying king.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost T...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON It little profits that an idle king,By this still hearth, among these barren crags,Matchd with an ag...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moo...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wond...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The older order changeth, yielding place to new,And God fulfils himself in many ways,Lest one good c...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I hold it true, whateer befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;Tis better to have loved and lostThan n...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON God's finger touched him and he slept.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Death is the end of life; ah why
Should life all labour be? . . .
All things have rest, and ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
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 One still strong man in a blatant land,
whatever they call him, what care I,
Aristocrat, democ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Either sex alone is half itself.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's
pain--
Nature made them blinder mo...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast,
Full of sad experience, moving ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in or...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog,...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A louse in the locks of literature.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Faith lives in honest doubt.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in m...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The greater person is one of courtesy.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I hold it true,what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lo...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ours not to reason why
Ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Better not be at all than not be noble.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, dem...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There's no glory like those who save their country.
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