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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Food, Rocks, Cooking
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.431, Delphi Classics

A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Summer, Ice, Sea
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.943, Delphi Classics

I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Dream, Thee
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1158, Delphi Classics

And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Moving, Good Luck, Shoes
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.511, Delphi Classics

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!

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sweet, Regret, First Love
'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 31, song (added 1850)

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Rain, Men, Rivers
'The Brook' (1855) l. 33

After-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wine, Dinner, Walnuts
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knights, Loyal
Alfred Tennyson, Geneviève Côté (2009). “The Lady of Shalott”, p.17, Kids Can Press Ltd

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Stars, Poetry, Desire
"Ulysses" l. 30 (1842)

This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Science, Men, Light
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.636, Delphi Classics

Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Faith, Jesus, Strong
1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., prologue, l.1-4.

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
Cat, Blue, Owl
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Holy Grail' (1869) l. 862

The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Dream, Prayer
Idylls of the King "The Passing of Arthur" l. 408 (1869) See Bailey 1; George H. W. Bush 7; George H. W. Bush 10; George H. W. Bush 12; Martin Luther King 1

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Life, Sight
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Swans, Ruffles, Cold
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 434

The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Christmas, Healing, Moon
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.116, Broadview Press

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
League, Valleys, Half
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" l. 1 (1854)

All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Moving, Forever, Experience

Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Freedom, Dawn, Red

Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last-far off-at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hope, Spring, Fall
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 54

Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knowledge, Men, Her Beauty
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.836, Delphi Classics

So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hate, Loss, Weight
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.887, Delphi Classics

Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lonely, Loneliness, Ancient
'Mariana' (1830) st. 1.

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Race, Savages
"Locksley Hall" l. 168 (1842)

She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Three, Pace, Rooms
'The Lady of Shalott' (1832, revised 1842) pt. 3

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