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I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.
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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Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
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But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!
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Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret O Death in Life, the days that are no more!
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A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.
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Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?
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Ah, why Should life all labour be?
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Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.
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But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
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Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
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Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.
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Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
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Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand Ring out the darkness of the land Ring in the Christ that is to be.
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Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.
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