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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He seems so...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He seems so...

He seems so near and yet so far.

Source: In Memoriam, 97 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Jewels five-words long<br>That...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Jewels five-words long
That...

Jewels five-words long
That on the stretched forefinger of all Time
Sparkle for...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No little lily-handed...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No little lily-handed...

No little lily-handed Baronet he,
A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,
A lord of fat prize-oxen and of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O Sorrow, wilt...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O Sorrow, wilt...

O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me
No casual mistress, but a wife.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O Swallow, Swallow,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O Swallow, Swallow,...

O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South,
Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves,
And tell her, tell her,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Not the schoolboy...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Not the schoolboy...

Not the schoolboy heat,
The blind hysterics of the Celt.


Source: In Memoriam,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sleep my little...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sleep my little...

Sleep my little one, sleep my pretty one, sleep.

Source: 'The Princess'
--...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Or when the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Or when the...

Or when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed;
'I am half sick of shadows,' said
The Lady...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So I triumphed...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So I triumphed...

So I triumphed ere my passion, sweeping thro' me, left me dry,
Left me with the palsied heart, and left me with the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sleep, Death's twin-brother,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sleep, Death's twin-brother,...

Sleep, Death's twin-brother, knows not Death,
Nor can I dream of thee as dead.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out the...

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: On one side...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: On one side...

On one side lay the Ocean, and on one
Lay a great water, and the moon was full.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The grand old...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The grand old...

The grand old name of gentleman.

Source: In Memoriam, 111 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The jingling of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The jingling of...

The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.

Source: Locksley...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Till the war-drum...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Till the war-drum...

Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tho'<br>We are not...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tho'
We are not...

Tho'
We are not now that strength that in old days
Moved earth and heaven: that which we are, we are;
One...

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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: Tis held that...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis held that...

Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

Source: In Memoriam, CXIII
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thro' scudding drifts...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thro' scudding drifts...

Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea.


Source: Ulysses,...

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Oscar Wilde: The well-bred contradict...

Oscar Wilde: The well-bred contradict...

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Source:...

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