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• For love reflects the thing beloved.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Beloved

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.80, Broadview Press

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• Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Flower, Learning, Weight

  In Memoriam epilogue, st. 10 (1850)

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• Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

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  Funny, Women, Heaven

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

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  Love, Kissing, Fire

  'Fatima' (1832) st. 3

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• Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths;
  Love laps his wings on either side the heart
  Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts,
  So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.

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  Sweet, Heart, Deep Love

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• The quiet sense of something lost

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  Quiet, Lost

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.94, Broadview Press

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• My doom is, I love thee still.
  Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

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  Wise, Sorrow

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.125, Broadview Press

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• Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

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  Music, Lying, Tired

  'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 1

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• Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring words; She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No"; She sees the best that glimmers through the worst; She feels the sun is hid for the night; She spies the summer through the winter bud; She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls; She hears the lark within the songless egg; She finds the fountain where they wailed "Mirage!"

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  Summer, Fall, Winter

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1376, Delphi Classics

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• There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, Faith, Honesty

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 96

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• And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

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  Men, Cells, Years

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

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• There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.

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  Sweet, Fall, Rose

  1832 Poems,'The Lotos - Eaters', Choric Song, stanza 1, l.46-51.

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• He is all fault who has no fault at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Faults

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• Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

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  Love, Sweet, Pain

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• God and Nature met in light.

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  Light, Mets, God And Nature

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.199, Cambridge University Press

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• The greater person is one of courtesy.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Courtesy, Manners, Persons

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• As the husband is, the wife is.

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  Husband, Wife

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• For always roaming with a hungry heart.

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  Heart, Roaming, Hungry

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

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  Fashion, Truth, Looks

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.77, Routledge

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• A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Kissing, Romantic Love

  'Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere' (1842)

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• As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.

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  Hate, Love Is, Perfect

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1047, Delphi Classics

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• God's finger touched him, and he slept.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Grieving, Funeral

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 85

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• He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
  Close to the sun in lonely lands,
  Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
  The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
  He watches from his mountain walls,
  And like a thunderbolt he falls.

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  Lonely, Wall, Fall

  "The Eagle" l. 1 (1851)

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