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Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
All their cosmogonies, their astronomies...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
These are Astronomy and Geology, terrible Muses!

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Doant thou marry for munny, but goa wheer munny is!

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Or that eternal lack of pence,
Which vexes public men.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
'I am half sick of shadows,' said
The Lady of Shalott.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The building rook'll caw from the windy tall elm-tree...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
He has plenty of music in him, but he cannot get it out.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Modern fame is nothing. I'd rather have an acre of land.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
For it was in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To search thro' all... And reach the law within the law...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Fresh from brawling courts
And dusty purlieus of the law.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The honeysuckle round the porch has woven its wavy bowers.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A princelier-looking man never stept thro' a prince's hall.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Gorgonized me from head to foot,
With a stony British stare.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Charm us, orator, till the lion look no larger than the cat.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapp'd in universal law.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The song that nerves a nation's heart
Is in itself a deed.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The fiery Sirius alters hue And bickers into red and emerald.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson