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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

British Poet Laureate

1809–1892

34 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Love and Emotion.

Dear as remember’d kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign’d
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Tears, Idle Tears (1847)In context
- Love
- Time
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Canto VIn context
- Emotion
- Writing
So runs my dream: but what am I?
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a cry.
In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Canto LIIIIn context
- Life & Death
What is it that will last?
All things are taken from us, and become
Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past.
The Lotos-Eaters (1832)In context
- Time

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