The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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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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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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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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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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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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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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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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Love is the only gold.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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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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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Love will conquer at the last.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON