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• The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Moon, Voice

  "Ulysses" l. 55 (1842)

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• Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day:
  Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away,
  To sleep! to sleep!
  Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past:
  Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Grief, Heart, Sleep

  "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

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• A day may sink or save a realm.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, May, Time Management

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1694, Delphi Classics

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• Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Soldier, Reason Why, Reason

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• All things human change.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Change, Humans, All Things

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1198, Delphi Classics

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• It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Years, Matrimony, Thrive

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• Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain;
  And sweet is death who puts an end to pain:
  I know not which is sweeter, no, not I.
  Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be:
  Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me.
  O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die.
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  I fain would follow love, if that could be;
  I needs must follow death, who calls for me;
  Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Sweet, Art

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Flower, Hours

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Night, Light, Tears

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 54

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• I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Self, Soul, Mistress

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2251, Delphi Classics

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• The old order changes yielding place to new.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Order

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• The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Smart, Wise Words, Vow

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1156, Delphi Classics

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• A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Art, Voice, Misery

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.469, Delphi Classics

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• Any man that walks the mead
  In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find,
  According as his humors lead,
  A meaning suited to his mind.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Men, Mind

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Sad, Lying

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2331, Delphi Classics

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• Trust me not at all, or all in all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Trust, Feelings, Trust Me

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Merlin and Vivien' (1859) l. 396

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• The many fail: the one succeeds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Succeed, Failing

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

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• Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wisdom, Men, Wisest Man

  "Pome by Alfred Lord Tennyson". Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1886.

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• Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Night, Sound, Wool

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.390, Delphi Classics

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• Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Grief, Mind, Sap

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ring Out , Wild Bells”

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• And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Men, Hands

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit: 124. That Which We Dare Invoke”

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• His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Faith, Dishonour, Rooted

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Lancelot and Elaine' (1859) l. 870

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• This barren verbiage, current among men,
  Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Coins, Currents

  "Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson".

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• The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men

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• Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  True Love, Pain, Grief

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Maud: A Monodrama (Part Ii, Excerpt)”

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