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.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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Attain the unattainable.
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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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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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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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I am a part of all that I have met.
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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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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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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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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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