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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sweet, Heart, Deep Love

My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Dream, Men
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.243, Courier Corporation

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Truth, Honesty, Lying

He is all fault who has no fault at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Faults

Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wise, Sorrow
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.125, Broadview Press

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Music, Lying, Tired
'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 1

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Funny, Women, Heaven
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.133, Courier Corporation

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sweet, Fall, Rose
1832 Poems,'The Lotos - Eaters', Choric Song, stanza 1, l.46-51.

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men, Cells, Years
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Sweet, Pain

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fashion, Truth, Looks
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.77, Routledge

The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Pain, Heart, Loss
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.294, Delphi Classics

Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Grief, Heart, Sleep
"The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life, Littles, Lost
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.86, Broadview Press

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Years, Matrimony, Thrive

The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Voice
'In the Valley of Cauteretz' (1864)

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Death, Grieving, Funeral
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 85

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Soldier, Reason Why, Reason

A day may sink or save a realm.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Time, May, Time Management
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1694, Delphi Classics

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Men, Mind
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Night, Light, Tears
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 54

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Moon, Voice
"Ulysses" l. 55 (1842)

He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lonely, Wall, Fall
"The Eagle" l. 1 (1851)

All things human change.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Change, Humans, All Things
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1198, Delphi Classics

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Smart, Wise Words, Vow
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1156, Delphi Classics

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