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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.Alfred Tennyson
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Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.Alfred Tennyson
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I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most;' Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.Alfred Tennyson
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Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.Alfred Tennyson
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Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise 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
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HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...Alfred Tennyson
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I am a part of all that I have met.Alfred Tennyson
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Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.Alfred Tennyson
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.Alfred Tennyson
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Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.Alfred Tennyson
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.Alfred Tennyson
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T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days Mov’d earth and heaven, that which we are, we are: One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. .Alfred Tennyson
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But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - TithonusAlfred Tennyson
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Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where 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.’- TithonusAlfred Tennyson
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I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!Alfred Tennyson
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Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!Alfred Tennyson
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Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.Alfred Tennyson
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Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.Alfred Tennyson
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soulAlfred Tennyson
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So runs my dream, but what am I?An infant crying in the night An infant crying for the light And with no language but a cry.Alfred Tennyson