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Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Swans, Ruffles, Cold

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 434

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Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Faith, Jesus, Strong

1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., prologue, l.1-4.

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Jealous, Thinking, Fool

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I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Cat, Blue, Owl

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Holy Grail' (1869) l. 862

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O last regret, regret can die!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Regret, Lasts, Dies

'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 78

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Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

League, Valleys, Half

"The Charge of the Light Brigade" l. 1 (1854)

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Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.

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Men, Dies, Happy Man

'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 70

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O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

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Sweet, Blow, Echoes

1850 The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 2.

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I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Priests, Delicate, Heard

'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 8

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Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Heart, Littles

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Marriage of Geraint' (1859) l. 352

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France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

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Men, Light, Blood

1886 'Locksley Hall Sixty Years After', l.89-90.

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It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

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Needs, Pleasure, Profit

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 652

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The noonday quiet holds the hill.

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Quiet, Hills, Calmness

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Book, Squares, Looks

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Merlin and Vivien' (1859) l. 667

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Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

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Girl, Queens, Women

'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 9

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The last great Englishman is low.

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Lasts, Lows, Englishmen

'Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington' (1852) st. 3

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I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

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Profit, Humans, Knows

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.96, Broadview Press

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An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

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Twilight, Order, Tree

'The Palace of Art' (1832) st. 22

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There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.

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Stars, Sun

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.655, Delphi Classics

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The time draws near the birth of Christ;
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.

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Christmas, Healing, Moon

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.116, Broadview Press

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She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room

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Three, Pace, Rooms

'The Lady of Shalott' (1832, revised 1842) pt. 3

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The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

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Life, Dream, Prayer

Idylls of the King "The Passing of Arthur" l. 408 (1869) See Bailey 1; George H. W. Bush 7; George H. W. Bush 10; George H. W. Bush 12; Martin Luther King 1

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Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

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Lonely, Loneliness, Ancient

'Mariana' (1830) st. 1.

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Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite
Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love.
News from the humming city comes to it
It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Summer, Garden, Cities

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.

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Science, Clouds, Sea

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.845, Delphi Classics

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