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1. "Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more." ~ Alfred Tennyson
2. "Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves a shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,and slips into the bosom of the lake:So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip into my bosom and be lost in me." ~ Alfred Tennyson
3. "Let me go: take back thy gift:Why should a man desire in any wayTo vary from the kindly race of men,Or pass beyond the goal of ordinanceWhere all should pause, as is most meet for all?...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,And make me tremble lest a saying learnt,In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.'- Tithonus" ~ Alfred Tennyson
4. "For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be." ~ Alfred Tennyson
5. "For this alone on Death I wreakThe wrath that garners in my heart:He put our lives so far apartWe cannot hear each other speak." ~ Alfred Tennyson
6. "Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster." ~ Alfred Tennyson
7. "The wind sounds like a silver wire,And from beyond the noon a fireIs pour'd upon the hills, and nigherThe skies stoop down in their desire;And, isled in sudden seas of light,My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight,Bursts into blossom in his sight." ~ Alfred Tennyson
8. "Our little systems have their day;They have their day and cease to be…And thou, O Lord, art more than they." ~ Alfred Tennyson
9. "A beam in darkness: let it grow." ~ Alfred Tennyson
10. "But such a tide as moving seems asleep,too full for sound or foam,when that which drew from outthe boundless deepturns again home." ~ Alfred Tennyson
11. "the deep moans round with many voices." ~ Alfred Tennyson
12. "This madness has come on us for our sins." ~ Alfred Tennyson
13. "THE EAGLEHe clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls." ~ Alfred Tennyson
14. "And this gray spirit yearning in desireTo follow knowledge like a sinking star,Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." ~ Alfred Tennyson
15. "That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies;That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright;But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight." ~ Alfred Tennyson
16. "I sing to him that rests below,And, since the grasses round me wave,I take the grasses of the grave,And make them pipes whereon to blow.The traveller hears me now and then,And sometimes harshly will he speak:`This fellow would make weakness weak,And melt the waxen hearts of men.'Another answers, `Let him be,He loves to make parade of painThat with his piping he may gainThe praise that comes to constancy.'A third is wroth: `Is this an hourFor private sorrow's barren song,When more and more the people throngThe chairs and thrones of civil power?'A time to sicken and to swoon,When Science reaches forth her armsTo feel from world to world, and charmsHer secret from the latest moon?'Behold, ye speak an idle thing:Ye never knew the sacred dust:I do but sing because I must,And pipe but as the linnets sing:And one is glad; her note is gay,For now her little ones have ranged;And one is sad; her note is changed,Because her brood is stol'n away." ~ Alfred Tennyson
17. "Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood." ~ Alfred Tennyson
18. "That loss is common would not make     My own less bitter, rather more:     Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break." ~ Alfred Tennyson
19. "Brothers in Art: a friendship so complete" ~ Alfred Tennyson
20. "My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism." ~ Alfred Tennyson
21. "There rolls the deep where grew the treeO earth, what changes hast thou seen!There where the long street roars hath been.The stillness of the central sea." ~ Alfred Tennyson
22. "There is sweet music here that softer fallsThan petals from blown roses on the grass,Or night-dews on still waters between wallsOf shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass;Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes;Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.Here are cool mosses deep,And thro' the moss the ivies creep,And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep,And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep." ~ Alfred Tennyson
23. "In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er,Like coarsest clothes against the cold" ~ Alfred Tennyson
24. "Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die." ~ Alfred Tennyson
25. "The year is dying in the night." ~ Alfred Tennyson
26. "I have led her home, my love, myonly friend.There is none like her, none,And never yet so warmly ran myblood,And sweetly, on and onCalming itself to the long-wished forend,Full to the banks, close on the prom-ised good." ~ Alfred Tennyson
27. "Dark house, by which once more I standHere in the long unlovely street,Doors, where my heart was used to beatSo quickly, waiting for a hand,A hand that can be clasp'd no more -Behold me, for I cannot sleep,And like a guilty thing I creepAt earliest morning to the door.He is not here; but far awayThe noise of life begins again,And ghastly thro' the drizzling rainOn the bald street breaks the blank day." ~ Alfred Tennyson
28. "The woods decay, the woods decay and fall..." ~ Alfred Tennyson
29. "Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice,Rise like a fountain for me night and day." ~ Alfred Tennyson
30. "Tis a morning pure and sweet,And a dewy splendour fallsOn the little flower that clingsTo the turrets and the walls;'Tis a morning pure and sweet,And the light and shadow fleet;She is walking in the meadow,And the woodland echo rings;In a moment we shall meet;She is singing in the meadow,And the rivulet at her feetRipples on in light and shadowTo the ballad that she sings." ~ Alfred Tennyson
31. "Kate saith the world is void of might.Kate saith the men are gilded flies.Kate snaps her fingers at my vows;Kate will not hear of lovers sighs.I would I were an armed knight,Far-famed for well-won enterprise,And wearing on my swarthy browsThe garland of new-wreathed empriseFor in a moment I would pierceThe blackest files of clanging fight,And strongly strike to left and right,In dreaming of my lady's eyes.O, Kate loves well the bold and fierce;But none are bold enough for Kate,She cannot find a fitting mate." ~ Alfred Tennyson
32. "It little profits that an idle king,By this still hearth, among these barren crags,Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race,That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me." ~ Alfred Tennyson
33. "All day within the dreamy house,The doors upon their hinges creaked;The blue fly sang in the pane; the mouseBehind the mouldering wainscot shrieked,Or from the crevice peered about.Old faces glimmered through the doors,Old footsteps trod the upper floors,Old voices called her from without. . . ." ~ Alfred Tennyson
34. "For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there raind a ghastly dewFrom the nations airy navies grappling in the central blue;Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,With the standards of the peoples plunging thro the thunder-storm;Till the war-drums throbbd, no longer, and the battle-flags were furledIn the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe,And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law." ~ Alfred Tennyson
35. "I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die." ~ Alfred Tennyson
36. "Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last." ~ Alfred Tennyson
37. "Tell thou the King and all his liars, that IHave founded my Round Table in the North,And whatsoever his own knights have swornMy knights have sworn the counter to it -- and sayMy tower is full of harlots, like his court,But mine are worthier, seeing thy professTo be none other than themselves -- and sayMy knights are all adulterers like his own,But mine are truer, seeing they professTo be none other; and say his hour is come,The heathen are upon him, his long lanceBroken, and his Excalibur a straw." ~ Alfred Tennyson
38. "Ours is not to reason why. Ours is but to do and die." ~ Alfred Tennyson
39. "When in the down I sink my head,Sleep, Death's twin-brother, times my breath;Sleep, Death's twin-brother, knows not Death,Nor can I dream of thee as dead:" ~ Alfred Tennyson
40. "So word by word, and line by line,The dead man touch'd me from the past,And all at once it seem'd at lastThe living soul was flash'd on mine,And mine in his was wound, and whirl'dAbout empyreal heights of thought,And came on that which is, and caughtThe deep pulsations of the world,Æonian music measuring outThe steps of Time—the shocks of Chance--The blows of Death. At length my tranceWas cancell'd, stricken thro' with doubt." ~ Alfred Tennyson
41. "Once in a golden hour,I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed." ~ Alfred Tennyson
42. "The quiet sense of something lost" ~ Alfred Tennyson
43. "A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies." ~ Alfred Tennyson
44. "I found Him in the shining of the stars." ~ Alfred Tennyson
45. "I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott." ~ Alfred Tennyson
46. "Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself." ~ Alfred Tennyson
47. "Behold, we know not anything;I can but trust that good shall fallAt last -- far off -- at last, to all,And every winter change to spring." ~ Alfred Tennyson
48. "And at the closing of the dayShe loosed the chain, and down she lay;The broad stream bore her far away,The Lady of Shallot." ~ Alfred Tennyson
49. "I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more." ~ Alfred Tennyson
50. "Virtue - to be good and just -Every heart, when sifted well,Is a clot of warmer dust,Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.- The Vision of Sin" ~ Alfred Tennyson
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He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand."
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