A beam in darkness: let it grow.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA beam in darkness: let it grow.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONCleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONLife is brief but love is LONG .
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONHer eyes are homes of silent prayers.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONLove lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThere is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAh, 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?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONHope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA louse in the locks of literature.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONSpeak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONRing out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMore things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON