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For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Music, Scandal, Cold

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2758, Delphi Classics

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Shall love be blamed for want of faith?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love Is, Want

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.132, Broadview Press

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Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love, Hate, Scorn

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2492, Delphi Classics

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Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Fire, Clouds, West

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.51, Broadview Press

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O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

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Love, Blow, Sky

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

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Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.

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Kindness, Wind, Kind

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I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

House, Soul, Ease

'The Palace of Art' (1832) st. 1

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Man's word is God in man.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Coming of Arthur' (1869) l. 132

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Oh good gray head which all men knew!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men, Gray

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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Tho' much is taken, much abides.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Gratitude, Taken, Skyfall

"Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

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Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers;
Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Faith, Want, Equal

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

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Gleam, Ants, Sun

1889 'Vastness', stanza 2, l.4.

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It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness, May, Achilles

"Ulysses" l. 59 (1842)

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I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Home, Blood, Long

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And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Strong, Eye, Hands

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.122, Broadview Press

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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.

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Beauty, Hands, Walking Hand In Hand

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Suicide, Crazy, Sorrow

'The Two Voices' (1842) st. 132

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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Running, Flower, May

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Speech

'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 23

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I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

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Race, Savages

"Locksley Hall" l. 168 (1842)

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Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.

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Feet, British, Staring

'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 13, st. 2

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Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Lying, Clouds, House

'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 8 (1842 revision)

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A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Earth, Lasts, Firsts

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

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Sea, Water, Silence

'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 19

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Kings, Heart, Blood

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Born: August 5, 1809
Died: October 6, 1892
Occupation: Poet
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