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• And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Humor, Men, Deep Thought

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.876, Delphi Classics

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• I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Weed, Pain, Lying

  1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 5, l.1-8.

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• Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Regret, First Love

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 31, song (added 1850)

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• Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  School, Hands, Names

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.527, Delphi Classics

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• Shall the hag Evil die with the child of Good, Or propagate again her loathèd kind, Thronging the cells of the diseased mind, Hateful with hanging cheeks, a withered brood, Though hourly pastured on the salient blood?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Children, Cells, Blood

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• A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Food, Rocks, Cooking

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.431, Delphi Classics

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• It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moon, Planets, Rate

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• The year is dying in the night.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Night, Years, Dying

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

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• This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Flames, Atheism, Green

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.120, Broadview Press

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• I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dust, Age, Deeds

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Flower, Wells, Fades

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• Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Plato, Mean, Men

  'Lucretius' (1868) l. 145

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• On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  God, Signatures, Half

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• The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Past, Fields

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Dust, Way

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.527, Delphi Classics

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• Flower in the crannied wall,
  I pluck you out of the crannies,
  I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
  Little flower-but if I could understand
  What you are, root and all, all in all,
  I should know what God and man is.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Wall, Spring

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.1039, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Age, Heirs

  "Locksley Hall" l. 178 (1842)

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• The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Dark, Men

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (2004). “Selected Poems”, p.142, Penguin UK

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• Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Dust, Sparks

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.527, Delphi Classics

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• All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fate, Issues, Veils

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.128, Cambridge University Press

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• Till last by Philip's farm I flow
  To join the brimming river,
  For men may come and men may go,
  But I go on for ever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Rain, Men, Rivers

  'The Brook' (1855) l. 33

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• The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, House, Soul

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “By An Evolutionist”

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• The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Vices, Passionate

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 4, st. 7

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• I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Valleys, Ferns, Sparkle

  'The Brook' (1855) l. 23

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• The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Death, Lying

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 1

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