Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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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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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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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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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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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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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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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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Love is the only gold.
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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