Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA louse in the locks of literature.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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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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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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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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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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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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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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