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For it was in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid.
Source: Recollections...
For men at most differ as Heaven and Earth,
But women, worst and best, as Heaven and...
But what am I?
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a...
God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but, when love is grown
To ripeness that on which it...
For man is man and master of his fate.
Source: Idylls of the King, 'The Marriage of...
For what are men better than sheep or goats
That nourish a blind life within the brain,
If, knowing God, they...
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that...
God make thee good as thou art beautiful.
Source: Idylls of the King, `The Holy...
Fresh from brawling courts
And dusty purlieus of the law.
Source: In Memoriam,...
Forward the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had...
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
Source: In...
Edward Bull
The curate; he was fatter than his cure.
Source: Edwin Morris,...
God of battles, was ever a battle like this in the world before?
Source: The...
Great in council and great in war,
Foremost captain of his time.
Source: Ode on...
Go not, happy day,
From the shining fields,
Go not, happy day,
Till the maiden...
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Source: In Memoriam, 85 (Note: the stanza...
Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
Source: 'The Vision of...
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,
Something better than his dog, a little...
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six...