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I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Priests, Delicate, Heard
'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 8

Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Heart, Littles
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Marriage of Geraint' (1859) l. 352

Who is this? And what is here? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer; And they crossed themselves for fear, All the Knights at Camelot; But Lancelot mused a little space He said, "She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Cheer, Space, Knights
1832 Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised 1842), pt.4, l.168-71.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Kings, Heart, Blood

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Summer, Death, Lying
'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 1

An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Twilight, Order, Tree
'The Palace of Art' (1832) st. 22

Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Hurt, Regret
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Feet, British, Staring
'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 13, st. 2

O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sweet, Blow, Echoes
1850 The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 2.

From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Smile, Heart, Simple
"Lady Clara Vere de Vere" l. 55 (1842)

By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sea, People, Broads
"Fifty Poems".

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Girl, Queens, Women
'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 9

But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Book, Squares, Looks
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Merlin and Vivien' (1859) l. 667

It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Needs, Pleasure, Profit
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 652

France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men, Light, Blood
1886 'Locksley Hall Sixty Years After', l.89-90.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Death, War, Poetry
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" l. 1 (1854)

The last great Englishman is low.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lasts, Lows, Englishmen
'Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington' (1852) st. 3

Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men, Dies, Happy Man
'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 70

Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lying, Clouds, House
'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 8 (1842 revision)

Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Passion, Wine, Men
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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