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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Men, my brothers,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Men, my brothers,...

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new:
That which they have done but earnest of the things...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O tell her,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O tell her,...

O tell her, brief is life but love is long.

Source: The Princess, IV
-- Alfred,...

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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: Revolts, republics, revolutions,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Revolts, republics, revolutions,...

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most
No graver than a schoolboy's barring out.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: This gray spirit...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: This gray spirit...

This gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human...

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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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Alexander Pope: See my lips...

Alexander Pope: See my lips...

See my lips tremble, and my eye-balls roll,
Suck my last breath, and catch my flying...

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Alexander Pope: To rest, the...

Alexander Pope: To rest, the...

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite,
Who never mentions hell to ears polite.


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Alexander Pope: Teach me to...

Alexander Pope: Teach me to...

Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to...

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Alexander Pope: Wit that can...

Alexander Pope: Wit that can...

Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

Source: Epistle to Dr....

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Alexander Pope: Why has not...

Alexander Pope: Why has not...

Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason, man is not a fly.


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Alexander Pope: Words are like...

Alexander Pope: Words are like...

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely...

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William Shakespeare: When daffodils begin...

William Shakespeare: When daffodils begin...

When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! the doxy, over the dale,
Why, then comes in the sweet o' the...

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William Shakespeare: It were all...

William Shakespeare: It were all...

It were all one
That I should love a bright particular star
And think to wed it, he is so above...

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William Shakespeare: I cannot, nor...

William Shakespeare: I cannot, nor...

I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still;
My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his...

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William Shakespeare: Fair flowers that...

William Shakespeare: Fair flowers that...

Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
Rot and consume themselves in little...

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Oscar Wilde: Like two doomed...

Oscar Wilde: Like two doomed...

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other's way:
But we made no sign, we said no...

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Oscar Wilde: Mere colour, unspoiled...

Oscar Wilde: Mere colour, unspoiled...

Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different...

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Oscar Wilde: There are moments...

Oscar Wilde: There are moments...

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Source:...

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Oscar Wilde: I dislike modern...

Oscar Wilde: I dislike modern...

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have...

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