The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONSweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONBlind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONO love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA louse in the locks of literature.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA beam in darkness: let it grow.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAs love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONNothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMen at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAnd men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONHer eyes are homes of silent prayers.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONGod’s finger touched him, and he slept.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONFour grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONTheirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONShape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONHope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON