The quiet sense of something lost.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMusic that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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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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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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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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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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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 makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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