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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Change, Dream, Heart
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1431, Delphi Classics

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Truth, Lying, Deceit
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1248, Delphi Classics

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Prayer, Heaven, Storm

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Gratitude, Grateful, Cells
'Maud' (1855) pt. 3, sect. 6, st. 1

I am a part of all that I have met.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Inspirational, Attitude, Self Esteem
"Ulysses" l. 13 (1842)

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Past, Eternity
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, True Love, Wise
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.119, Courier Corporation

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lying, Half, Truth Is
"The Darkest of All Lies" by Michael L. (Mikey) Weinstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2012.

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Work, Philosophical, Ambition
In Memoriam canto 73 (1850) See Rhodes 2

Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Flower, Learning, Weight
In Memoriam epilogue, st. 10 (1850)

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide
"Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson".

Attain the unattainable.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Success, Unattainable

Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sweet, Peace, Stars
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.352, Delphi Classics

The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Done, World, Earth
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.92, Broadview Press

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Inspirational, New Year, Years
In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

The greater person is one of courtesy.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Courtesy, Manners, Persons

I found Him in the shining of the stars.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Stars, Shining, Found
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 9

For love reflects the thing beloved.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Beloved
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.80, Broadview Press

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Return, I Loved You
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1099, Delphi Classics

There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait."

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Flower, Passion
'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 10

The quiet sense of something lost

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Quiet, Lost
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.94, Broadview Press

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring words; She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No"; She sees the best that glimmers through the worst; She feels the sun is hid for the night; She spies the summer through the winter bud; She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls; She hears the lark within the songless egg; She finds the fountain where they wailed "Mirage!"

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Summer, Fall, Winter
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1376, Delphi Classics

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Kissing, Fire
'Fatima' (1832) st. 3

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Philosophical, Touching, Together
'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 38

And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knights, Mirrors, Blue
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.43, Broadview Press

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