Alfred Lord Tennyson on death
Alfred Lord Tennyson91 quotes“Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.”
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Things seen are mightier than things heard.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Love will conquer at the last.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson
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