Alfred Tennyson

England
6 Aug 1809 // 6 Oct 1892
Poeta

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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.

We are ancients of the earth,
And in the morning of the times.

L'Envoi

Unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square.

My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

Sir Galahad, Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson, p. 101
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