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The book features a wide array of Tennyson's poetry, including his most famous works such as 'In Memoriam A.H.H.' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade.' The illustrated edition offers visual interpretations of the poet's verses, providing a unique and immersive reading experience.
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“And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“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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“In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.”
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“The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.”
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“Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.”
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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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“What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“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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“Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.”
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“The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.”
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“All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.”
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“Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.”
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“For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.”
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“Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.”
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“Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.”
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“Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.”
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“What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.”
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“The night comes on that knows not morn,
When I shall cease to be all alone,
To live forgotten, and love forlorn.”
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“Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.”
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“The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.”
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“And others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches,
And most, of sterling worth, is what
Our own experience preaches.”
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“The thrall in person may be free in soul”
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“There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.”
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“The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.”
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“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
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“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
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“Love is the only gold.”
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“Better not be at all than not be noble.”
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“Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.”
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“A day may sink or save a realm.”
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“But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus”
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“I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul”
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“There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.”
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“The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.”
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“Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a morning pure and sweet, And the light and shadow fleet; She is walking in the meadow, And the woodland echo rings; In a moment we shall meet; She is singing in the meadow, And the rivulet at her feet Ripples on in light and shadow To the ballad that she sings.”
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“the shell must break before the bird can fly.”
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“And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.”
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“So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight”
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“And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!”
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“Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.”
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“I am any man's suitor,
If any will be my tutor:
Some say this life is pleasant,
Some think it speedeth fast,
In time there is no present,
In eternity no future,
In eternity no past.
We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
Who will riddle me the how and the why?”
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“The sin
That neither God nor man can well forgive.”
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“The mighty hopes that make us men.”
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“Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail
Against her beauty? May she mix
With men and prosper! Who shall fix
Her pillars? Let her work prevail.”
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“Life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And heated hot with burning fears,
And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
And batter'd with the shocks of doom,
To shape and use.”
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“God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throve
Falls off, and love is left alone.”
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“Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls:
Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.”
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“You, methinks you think you love me well;
For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love
Should have some rest and pleasure in himself,
Not ever be too curious for a boon,
Too prurient for a proof against the grain
Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men,
Being but ampler means to serve mankind,
Should have small rest or pleasure in herself,
But work as vassal to the larger love,
That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.”
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“Lady, for indeed
I loved you and I deemed you beautiful,
I cannot brook to see your beauty marred
Through evil spite: and if ye love me not,
I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn:
I had liefer ye were worthy of my love,
Than to be loved again of you - farewell;
And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love,
Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more.”
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“I will love thee to the death,
And out beyond into the dream to come.”
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