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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONShape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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I sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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Attain the unattainable.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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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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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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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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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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Love is the only gold.
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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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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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