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• Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sorrow, Despair, Unrest

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.54, Broadview Press

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• Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Forgiveness, Hate, Forgiving

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1240, Delphi Classics

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• Follow the deer? Follow the Christ the King. Live pure, speak true,right wrong, Follow the King-- Else, wherefore born?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Kings, Deer, Speak

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Gareth and Lynette' (1872) l. 117

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• It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fall, May, Life Is

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  So Sad

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 30, song (added 1850)

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• I am any man's suitor,
  If any will be my tutor:
  Some say this life is pleasant,
  Some think it speedeth fast,
  In time there is no present,
  In eternity no future,
  In eternity no past.
  We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
  Who will riddle me the how and the why?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Past, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Grief, Forgiving, Found

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Professor Norman Page (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.102, Routledge

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• The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Smell, Soul, Green

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.83, Cambridge University Press

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• Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Anchors, Care, Casts

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1201, Delphi Classics

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• There's no glory like those who save their country.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Country, Glory

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• Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spirit, Efficiency, Cricket

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• I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

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• Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Rain, Sky, Rainbow

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Coming of Arthur' (1869) l. 402

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• Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Morning, Moving

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 1

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• My mind is clouded with a doubt.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Doubt, Mind, Clouded

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 424

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• Lady, for indeed
  I loved you and I deemed you beautiful,
  I cannot brook to see your beauty marred
  Through evil spite: and if ye love me not,
  I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn:
  I had liefer ye were worthy of my love,
  Than to be loved again of you - farewell;
  And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love,
  Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1133, Delphi Classics

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• Faith lives in honest doubt.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Faith, Feelings, Doubt

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• O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Names, Voice

  'Northern Farmer. New Style' (1869) st. 5

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• Virtue must shape itself in deed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Shapes, Deeds, Virtue

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.299, Broadview Press

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• Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Men, Hands

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a morning pure and sweet, And the light and shadow fleet; She is walking in the meadow, And the woodland echo rings; In a moment we shall meet; She is singing in the meadow, And the rivulet at her feet Ripples on in light and shadow To the ballad that she sings.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Morning, Wall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.898, Delphi Classics

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• Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Blow, White, World

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Coming of Arthur' (1869) l. 481

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• O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, Humility, Son

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”

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• It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Silence, Rift

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Merlin and Vivien' (1859) l. 388

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• A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Epic, Doctors

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 2, l. 352

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