Alfred, Lord Tennyson

He is but...

He is but...

He is but a landscape-painter,
And a village maiden she.


Source: The Lord of...

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I built my...

I built my...

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house,
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.


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Half light, half...

Half light, half...

Half light, half shade,
She stood, a sight to make an old man young.


Source: The...

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How sweet are...

How sweet are...

How sweet are looks that ladies bend
On whom their favours fall!


Source: Sir...

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How fares it...

How fares it...

How fares it with the happy dead?

Source: In Memoriam, 44 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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He seems so...

He seems so...

He seems so near and yet so far.

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

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I dreamed there...

I dreamed there...

I dreamed there would be Spring no more,
That Nature's ancient power was lost.


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Hope smiles on...

Hope smiles on...

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.

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I am a...

I am a...

I am a part of all I have met.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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I should count...

I should count...

I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard,
To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of...

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High above roaring...

High above roaring...

High above roaring Temple-bar,
And set in Heaven's third storey,
I look at all things as they are,
But thro'...

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I seemed to...

I seemed to...

I seemed to move among a world of ghosts,
And feel myself the shadow of a dream.


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I am shamed...

I am shamed...

I am shamed thro' all my nature to have loved so slight a thing.

Source: Locksley...

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I held it...

I held it...

I held it truth with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping stones
Of...

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In that world-earthquake,...

In that world-earthquake,...

In that world-earthquake, Waterloo!

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

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I am going...

I am going...

I am going a long way
With these thou seest - if indeed I go
(For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) -
To...

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I wept, `Tho'...

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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I do but...

I do but...

I do but sing because I must,
And pipe but as the linnets sing.


Source: In...

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I hold it...

I hold it...

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never...

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Into the jaws...

Into the jaws...

Into the jaws of death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.


Source:...

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