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• And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fall, Kissing, Tears

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.292, Delphi Classics

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• Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Eye, Artist, Hair

  'The Gardener's Daughter' (1842) l. 28

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• Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.611, Delphi Classics

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• I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Bridges, Cities, Watches

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

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• Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Believe, Self, Thorough

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• Earth is dry to the centre,
  But spring, a new comer,
  A spring rich and strange,
  Shall make the winds blow
  Round and round,
  Thro' and thro',
  Here and there,
  Till the air
  And the ground
  Shall be fill'd with life anew.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spring, Blow, Air

  "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical". Book by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1830.

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• Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wind, Littles, Aspens

  'The Lady of Shalott' (1832, revised 1842) pt. 1

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• You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, New Year, Queens

  'The May Queen' (1832)

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• Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Art, Littles, Lord

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) prologue

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• Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Jewels, Long

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

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• But for the unquiet heart and brain
  A use in measured language lies;
  The sad mechanic exercise
  Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Pain, Lying, Heart

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

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• And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Flower, Blow

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Golden, Prime

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Recollection Of The Arabian Nights”

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• A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Beauty, Daughter, Tall

  'A Dream of Fair Women' (1832) l. 87

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• Bible reading is an education in itself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Bible, Reading, Biblical

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• That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Fighting, May

  'The Grandmother' (1859) st. 8

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• Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, Mother, Fall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.699, Delphi Classics

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• You, methinks you think you love me well;
  For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love
  Should have some rest and pleasure in himself,
  Not ever be too curious for a boon,
  Too prurient for a proof against the grain
  Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men,
  Being but ampler means to serve mankind,
  Should have small rest or pleasure in herself,
  But work as vassal to the larger love,
  That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Love You, Mean

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

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• For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Wrath, Speak

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.153, Broadview Press

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• In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
  In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Change, Spring, Flower

  "Locksley Hall" l. 20 (1842)

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• That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strength, Squares, Wind

  'Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington' (1852) st. 4

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• From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Blue, Long, Wife

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wisdom, Scorn, Consequence

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Envy, Cages

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 27

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