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Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.
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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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.
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I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.
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We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.
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And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
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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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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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As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.
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The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.
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Too much wit makes the world rotten.
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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.
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It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried
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I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good.
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And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.
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How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
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