Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONIf Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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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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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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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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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
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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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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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