There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI 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.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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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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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Attain the unattainable.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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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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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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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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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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