The quiet sense of something lost.
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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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Attain the unattainable.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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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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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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I am a part of all that I have met.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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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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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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