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A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Time, Epic, Doctors
'The Princess' (1847) pt. 2, l. 352

Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Time, Jewels, Long
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”

But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Pain, Lying, Heart
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sweet, Flower, Blow
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Golden, Prime
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Recollection Of The Arabian Nights”

I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sick, Shadow, Half
'The Lady of Shalott' (1832, revised 1842) pt. 2

A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Beauty, Daughter, Tall
'A Dream of Fair Women' (1832) l. 87

Bible reading is an education in itself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Bible, Reading, Biblical

Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Song, Echoes, Rivers
'The Lady of Shalott' (1832, revised 1842) pt. 1

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lying, Fighting, May
'The Grandmother' (1859) st. 8

Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Happiness, Mother, Fall
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.699, Delphi Classics

You, methinks you think you love me well; For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love Should have some rest and pleasure in himself, Not ever be too curious for a boon, Too prurient for a proof against the grain Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men, Being but ampler means to serve mankind, Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, But work as vassal to the larger love, That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Love You, Mean
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Heart, Wrath, Speak
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.153, Broadview Press

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Change, Spring, Flower
"Locksley Hall" l. 20 (1842)

I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hate, Heart, Men

That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Strength, Squares, Wind
'Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington' (1852) st. 4

From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Blue, Long, Wife
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Summer, Envy, Cages
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 27

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wisdom, Scorn, Consequence
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Flower, Light
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) Dedication (1862) l. 24

The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dirty, Nurse, Experience
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Last Tournament' (1859) l. 317

All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fear, Night, Form
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.138, Broadview Press

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fall, Decay, Woods
"Tithonus" l. 1 (1860 - 1864)

We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Morning, Earth
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Science, Climbing, Mud
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1434, Delphi Classics

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