Alfred Tennyson
England
6 Aug 1809 // 6 Oct 1892
Poeta
6 Aug 1809 // 6 Oct 1892
Poeta
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This truth within thy mind rehearse,
That in a boundless universe
Is boundless better, boundless worse.
That in a boundless universe
Is boundless better, boundless worse.
The Two Voices
I know that age to age succeeds,
Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds,
A dust of systems and of creeds.
Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds,
A dust of systems and of creeds.
The Two Voices
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.
The Flower
O love! O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Fatima
As she fled fast through sun and shade
The happy winds upon her play'd,
Blowing the ringlet from the braid.
The happy winds upon her play'd,
Blowing the ringlet from the braid.
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere
From yon blue heaven above us bent,
The grand old gardener and his wife
Smile at the claims of long descent.
The grand old gardener and his wife
Smile at the claims of long descent.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use,
As tho' to breathe were life!
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use,
As tho' to breathe were life!
Ulysses
Mastering the lawless science of our law,
That codeless myriad of precedent,
That wilderness of single instances.
That codeless myriad of precedent,
That wilderness of single instances.
Aylmer's Field
It is the little rift within the lute
That by and by will make the music mute,
And ever widening slowly silence all.
That by and by will make the music mute,
And ever widening slowly silence all.
Idylls of the King. Merlin and Vivien
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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