O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAh, 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.
More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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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 voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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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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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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