Alfred Tennyson

England
6 Aug 1809 // 6 Oct 1892
Poeta

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A daughter of the gods, divinely tall,
And most divinely fair.

A Dream of Fair Women

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

On Good:

Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill.

In Memoriam

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.

Weeded and worn the ancient thatch
Upon the lonely moated grange.

Mariana

So dear a life your arms enfold,
Whose crying is a cry for gold.

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

In Memoriam

This laurel greener from the brows
Of him that utter'd nothing base.

To the Queen

On Change:

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
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