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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

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Gay, Night, Color
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.998, Cosimo, Inc.

I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fire, Sin, Save Me
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

Sweet is true love, though given in vain.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Sweet, Vain
Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sad, Land, Claims
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Freedom, Hands, Mets
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Freedom, Light, Feet
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dark, Men, Race
'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 46

For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fighting, Son, Gun

All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Taken, Past, Portions
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Science, Law, Wilderness
"Aylmer's Field" st. 18 (1864)

Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Law, And Love, Teeth
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 56

And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Common, Grain, Wells
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 6

Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Father, Boys, Men
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Obiit MDCCCXXXIIi (Entire)”

We love but while we may; And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, May, Thee
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.228, Courier Corporation

The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hurt, Honor, Helping
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems”, p.32, Courier Corporation

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sea, Water, Silence
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 19

O last regret, regret can die!

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Regret, Lasts, Dies
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 78

The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Swans, Hymns, Joy
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Profit, Humans, Knows
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.96, Broadview Press

Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knows
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.711, Delphi Classics

Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Faith, Want, Equal
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.122, Courier Corporation

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Earth, Lasts, Firsts
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Music, Song, Heart
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Daughter, Heart, Littles
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Summer, Garden, Cities
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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