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• Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

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• The Shadow cloaked from head to foot, Who keeps the keys of all the creeds.

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• And Thought leapt out towed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

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• I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

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• There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

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• The last red leaf is whirled away, The rooks are blown about the skies.

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• And ghastly through the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.

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• His heavy-shotted hammock-shroud Drops in his vast and wandering grave.

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• Ask me no more: what answer should I give? I love not hollow cheek or faded eye: Yet, O my friend, I will not have thee die! Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live.

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• Rose a nurse of ninety years, Set his child upon her knee- Like summer tempest came her tears- ‘Sweet my child, I live for thee.’

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• O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee. O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North.

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• The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

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• No little lily-handed baronet he, A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman, A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep, A raiser of huge melons and of pine, A patron of some thirty charities, A pamphleteer on guano and on grain.

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• But we grow old, Ah! when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Through all the circle of the golden year.

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• A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent.

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• I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

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• Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

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• No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

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• This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

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• I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

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Alfred Tennyson (87)

Birth:	6th August, 1809
Death:	6th October, 1892
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

About

Alfred 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. Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar". He is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Tennyson was first a student of Louth Grammar School for four years and then attended Scaitcliffe School, Englefield Green and King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1827. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuctoo". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830.

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