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To reverence the King, as if he were
Their conscience, and their conscience as their King.
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Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point.
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But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
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Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
Nor paltered with Eternal God for power.
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With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans,
And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair.
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I Cannot Rest From Travel:
I will drink
Life To The Lees:
all times I have enjoy'd
Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext The Dim Sea:
I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honour'd of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
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Then spake Sir Richard Grenville: "I know you are no coward;
You fly them for a moment to fight with them again.
But I've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore.
I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard,
To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain."
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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.
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Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd;
All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word.
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O love, they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
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Short swallow-flights of song, that dip
Their wings in tears, and skim away.
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All in the blue unclouded weather
Thick-jewelled shone the saddle-leather,
The helmet and the helmet-feather
Burned like one burning flame together,
As he rode down to Camelot.
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I know that age to age succeeds,
Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds,
A dust of systems and of creeds.
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The deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows, for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
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Ambition
Is like the sea wave, which the more you drink
The more you thirst—yea—drink too much, as men
Have done on rafts of wreck—it drives you mad.
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Doant thou marry for munny, but goa wheer munny is!
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Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.
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The king who fights his people fights himself.
And they my knights, who loved me once, the stroke
That strikes them dead is as my death to me.
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Love is hurt with jar and fret;
Love is made a vague regret.
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Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest commonplace!
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"He does not love me for my birth
Nor for my lands so broad and fair;
He loves me for my own true worth,
And that is well," said Lady Clare.
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"Shall we fight or shall we fly?
Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
For to fight is but to die!
There'll be little of us left by the time this sun be set."
And Sir Richard said again: "We be all good English men.
Let us bang these dogs of Seville, the children of the devil,
For I never turn'd my back upon Don or devil yet."
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Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind,
In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined
On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
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Yet the moonlight is the sunlight and the sun himself will pass.
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'I am half sick of shadows,' said
The Lady of Shalott.
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Born:
August 6, 1809
Died:
October 6, 1892
(aged 83)
Bio:
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.
Known for:
In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849)
Idylls of the King (1859)
Ulysses (1833)
The Lady of Shalott (1833)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
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