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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Summer Night

Summer Night

NOW sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
Th…

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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tears, Idle Tears

Tears, Idle Tears

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,

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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Spring

Spring


Birds' love and birds' song
Flying here and there,
Birds' songand birds' love
And you with gold for hair!
Birds' songand birds' …

485
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sir Galahad

Sir Galahad

MY good blade carves the casques of men,
My tough lance thrusteth sure,
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure…

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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring Out , Wild Bells

Ring Out , Wild Bells

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bel…

715
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Recollections of the Arabian Nights.

Recollections of the Arabian Nights.

When the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free
In the silken sail of infancy,
The tide of time flow'd back with me,

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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Politics

Politics


We move, the wheel must always move,
Nor always on the plain,
And if we move to such a goal
As wisdom hopes to gain,
Then you …

492
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights

Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights

Of old sat Freedom on the heights,
The thunders breaking at her feet:
Above her shook the starry lights:
She hear…

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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII (Entire)

OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII (Entire)

Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we, that have not seen thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing wh…

451
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

OEnone

OEnone


. There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier
Than all the valleys of Ionian hills.
The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen,
Puts forth an …

491
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyr…

452
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

O true and tried

O true and tried

O true and tried, so well and long,
Demand not thou a marriage lay;
In that it is thy marriage day
Is music more than any song.

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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Move Eastward, Happy Earth

Move Eastward, Happy Earth

Move eastward, happy earth, and leave
Yon orange sunset waning slow:
From fringes of the faded eve,
O, happy planet, eas…

463
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Minnie and Winnie

Minnie and Winnie

Minnie and Winnie
Slept in a shell.
Sleep, little ladies!
And they slept well.

Pink was the shell within,
Silve…

342
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Merlin And Vivien

Merlin And Vivien

A storm was coming, but the winds were still,
And in the wild woods of Broceliande,
Before an oak, so hollow, huge and old
It loo…

504
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Marriage Morning

Marriage Morning

Light, so low upon earth,
You send a flash to the sun.
Here is the golden close of love,
All my wooing is done.
Oh, the wood…

465
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Lucretius

Lucretius

Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, found
Her master cold; for when the morning flush
Of passion and the first embrace had died
Between them, t…

496
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Mariana

Mariana


WITH BLACKEST moss the flower-plots
Were thickly crusted, one and all:
The rusted nails fell from the knots
That held the pear to the…

556
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Lilian

Lilian

I
Airy, Fairy Lilian,
Flitting, fairy Lilian,


When I ask her if she love me,
Claps her tiny hands above me,
Laughing…

511
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Lancelot And Elaine

Lancelot And Elaine

Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable,
Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat,
High in her chamber up a tower to the east
Guarded the …

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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H.: The Prelude

In Memoriam A. H. H.: The Prelude

Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we, that have not seen thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,

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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

In the Valley of Cauteretz

In the Valley of Cauteretz

All along the valley, stream that flashest white,
Deepening thy voice with the deepening of the night,
All along the valley, w…

444
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H.: Is it, then, regret for buried time

In Memoriam A. H. H.: Is it, then, regret for buried time

Is it, then, regret for buried time

That keenlier in sweet April wakes,

And meets t…

431
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H.: 96. You say, but with no touch of sco

In Memoriam A. H. H.: 96. You say, but with no touch of sco

You say, but with no touch of scorn,
Sweet-hearted, you, whose light-blue eyes
Are tender ove…

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