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 TENNYSONMen at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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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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Love 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.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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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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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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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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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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