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These are Astronomy and Geology, terrible Muses!
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And, below, stuck out The bones of some vast bulk that lived and roared Before man was.
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I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.
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I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.
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We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.
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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.
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If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.
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Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.
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This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.
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Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.
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When Science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon?
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Had the fierce ashes of some fiery Peak Been hurled so high they ranged round the World, For day by day through many a blood-red eve The wrathful sunset glared.
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As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his birth, So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man.
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Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.
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All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.
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I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling...
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A still salt pool, locked in with bars of sand, Left on the shore; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
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Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.
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What is it? A learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it who can, The beauty would be the same.
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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
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And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.
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Many a night I saw the Pleiads,
Rising thro' the mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies,
Tangled in a silver braid.
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See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairly well, With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design!
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Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
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I toil beneath the curse,
But, knowing not the universe,
I fear to slide from bad to worse.
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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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