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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Attain the unattainable.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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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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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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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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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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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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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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