Alfred Tennyson

England
6 Aug 1809 // 6 Oct 1892
Poeta

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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.

Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn,
The love of love.

The Poet

But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.

Break, break, break

Though thou wert scattered to the wind,
Yet is there plenty of the kind.

The Two Voices

Her manners had not that repose
Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.

Lady Clara Vere de Vere

Broad based upon her people's will,
And compassed by the inviolate sea.

To the Queen

That tower of strength
Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 4

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house,
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

The Palace of Art
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