The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONSweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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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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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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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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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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