Alfred Tennyson

England
6 Aug 1809 // 6 Oct 1892
Poeta

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On Courtesy:

The greater man, the greater courtesy.

Idylls of the King, The Last Tournament

God's finger touched him and he slept.

In Memoriam

On Nature:

Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.

There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.

More black than ash-buds in the front of March.

The Gardener's Daughter

In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.

Idylls of the King. Dedication

All in the valley of death
Rode the six hundred.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.

Maud

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

The Brook
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