Lord Alfred Tennyson
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRSwas Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets...
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O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies,/ O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity,/ God-gifted organ voice of England,/ Milton, a name to resound for ages.
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O love, O fire! once he drewWith one long kiss my whole soul throughMy lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
curse heard whisper
She has heard a whisper say,/ A curse is on her if she stay/ To look down to Camelot.
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Sink me the ship, Master Gunner - sink her, split her in twain!/ Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of Spain!
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Music that gentler on the spirit lies- Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes
dreams maybe wildest
Maybe the wildest dreams are but the needful preludes of the truth.
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Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
beauty creatures hunt love man ride shining woman
Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
pure spirit thou
Make Thou my spirit pure and clear/ As are the frosty skies.
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To-night the winds begin to rise/ And roar from yonder dropping day:/ The last red leaf is whirled away,/ The rooks are blown about the skies.
dividing swift
This way and that dividing the swift mind.
boundless mind thy truth within
This truth within thy mind rehearse,/ That in a boundless universe/ Is boundless better, boundless worse.
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To do him any wrong was to beget a kindness from him, for his heart was rich - of such fine mould that if you sowed therein the seed of hate, it blossomed charity.
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Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law - Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed