Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI found Him in the shining of the stars.
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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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.
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Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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.
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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I can’t sleep without knowing there’s hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips… the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
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