Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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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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Silence, beautiful voice.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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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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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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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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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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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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