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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 6
Died: 1892
Died: October 6
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.
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Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.
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Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.
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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.
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There she weaves by night and day, A magic web with colors gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay, To look down to Camelot. She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care hath she, The Lady of Shalott.
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He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
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Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.
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Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
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I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
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It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.
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I cannot rest from travel I will drink Life to the lees.
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Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.
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Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights She heard the torrents meet.
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The white flower of a blameless life.
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The long day wanes the slow moon climbs the deep.
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Man is man, and master of his fate.
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Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.
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