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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Heard the heavens...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Heard the heavens...

Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hold thou the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hold thou the...

Hold thou the good: define it well:
For fear divine philosophy
Should push beyond her mark and be
Procuress...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I wept, `Tho'...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I wept, `Tho'...

I wept, `Tho' I should die, I know
That all about the thorn will blow
In tufts of rosy-tinted...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It little profits...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It little profits...

It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Let us hob-and-nob...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Let us hob-and-nob...

Let us hob-and-nob with Death.

Source: The Village of Sin, 34
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I heard the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I heard the...

I heard the water lapping on the crag,
And the long ripple washing in the reeds.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now sleeps the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now sleeps the...

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O friends, our...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O friends, our...

O friends, our chief state-oracle is mute.

Source: Ode on the Death of the Duke of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No rock so...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No rock so...

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: My purpose holds<br>To...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: My purpose holds
To...

My purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Surely, surely, slumber...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Surely, surely, slumber...

Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore
Than labour in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: There lives more...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: There lives more...

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


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The woman's cause...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The woman's cause...

The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink
Together.


Source: The Princess,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The woods decay,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The woods decay,...

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and tills the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Twilight and evening...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Twilight and evening...

Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Wearing the white...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Wearing the white...

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life.

Source: Idylls of the King,...

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Oscar Wilde: The best way...

Oscar Wilde: The best way...

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Source:
-- Oscar...

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Oscar Wilde: The condition of...

Oscar Wilde: The condition of...

The condition of perfection is idleness; the aim of perfection is youth.

Source:...

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Oscar Wilde: The American father....

Oscar Wilde: The American father....

The American father. . . is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his...

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Oscar Wilde: Absolute catholicity of...

Oscar Wilde: Absolute catholicity of...

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of...

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