Alfred Tennyson

England
6 Aug 1809 // 6 Oct 1892
Poeta

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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

Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die...

The Charge of the Light Brigade

He never mocks,
For mockery is the fume of little hearts.

The Idylls of the King, Guinevere

For it was in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Recollections of the Arabian Nights

Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.

In Memoriam

She said, 'I am aweary, aweary,
I would that I were dead!'

Mariana

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.

I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Locksley Hall
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