And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONDreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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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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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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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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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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 old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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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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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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