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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 6
Died: 1892
Died: October 6
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Ah, why Should life all labour be?
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You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.
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Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.
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What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
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The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.
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A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.
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The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.
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She is coming, my own, my sweet Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthly bed My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.
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