Alfred Tennyson

England
6 Aug 1809 // 6 Oct 1892
Poeta

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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

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

On Kiss:

And our spirits rush'd together at the touching of the lips.

Locksley Hall

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.
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