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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Soul, Half
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.361, 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

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)

And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Men, Hands
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit: 124. That Which We Dare Invoke”

If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Flower, Hours
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Mind, Noble
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

Either sex alone is half itself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Sex, Men
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.698, Delphi Classics

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Science, Law
In Memoriam canto 56 (1850)

Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, World, Sparrows
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.216, Broadview Press

Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ... 'So careful of the type', but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go' ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law- Tho' Nature red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dream, Nature, Prayer
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Obiit MDCCCXXXIIi (Entire)”

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, Wall, Spring
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.1039, Cosimo, Inc.

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