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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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“Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales.
They said that Love would die when Hope was gone.
And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope;
At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“I loved you, and my love had no return,
And therefore my true love has been my death.”
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“No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.”
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“All night have the roses heard
The flute, violin, bassoon;
All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
To the dancers dancing in tune;
Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
And a hush with the setting moon.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good,
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.”
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“He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.”
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“As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.”
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“And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.”
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“Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.”
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“Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.”
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“The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.”
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“Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.”
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“Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.”
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“This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.”
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“How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.”
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“Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.”
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“Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!”
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“The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.”
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“I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.”
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“Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.”
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“So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.”
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“The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.”
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“But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.”
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“Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?”
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“Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.”
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“Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.”
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“Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,
And the winter winds are wearily sighing:
Toll ye the church bell sad and slow,
And tread softly and speak low,
For the old year lies a-dying.
Old year you must not die;
You came to us so readily,
You lived with us so steadily,
Old year you shall not die.”
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“As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.”
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“A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?”
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“Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring words; She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No"; She sees the best that glimmers through the worst; She feels the sun is hid for the night; She spies the summer through the winter bud; She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls; She hears the lark within the songless egg; She finds the fountain where they wailed "Mirage!"”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.”
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“He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.”
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“I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?”
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“All things human change.”
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“That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.”
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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 doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.”
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“Things seen are mightier than things heard.”
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“Either sex alone is half itself.”
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