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“She is coming, my own, my sweet;
Were it ever so airy a tread,
My heart would hear her and beat,
Were it earth in an earthy bed;
My dust would hear her and beat,
Had I lain for a century dead;
Would start and tremble under her feet,
And blossom in purple and red.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Part I, section xxii, stanza 11
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

Heart , Dead

“Come out, my lord, it is a world of fools.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Act iv, scene 3
Queen Mary: A Drama (published 1876)

World , Fools

“At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
"Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!"
Then sware Lord Thomas Howard: "'Fore God I am no coward;
But I cannot meet them here, for my ships are out of gear,
And the half my men are sick. I must fly, but follow quick.
We are six ships of the line; can we fight with fifty-three?"”

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St. 1
The Revenge (1878)

Men , God , War , Bird

“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,
Thro' all the circle of the golden year?”

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" The Golden Year http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tgy.htm", st. 3 (1842)

Men , Lie , Peace , Light

“That tower of strength
Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.”

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St. IV
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (1852)

“As shines the moon in clouded skies,
She in her poor attire was seen;
One praised her ankles, one her eyes,
One her dark hair and lovesome mien.
So sweet a face, such angel grace,
In all that land had never been.
Cophetua sware a royal oath:
"This beggar maid shall be my queen!"”

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" The Beggar Maid http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tbm.htm", st. 2 (1842)

Angels

“Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest commonplace!”

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Stanza 38
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)

“In our windy world
What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.”

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Harold, Act i, Scene 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

World , Faith

“mother Ida, many-fountain'd Ida,
Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.
For now the noonday quiet holds the hill:
The grasshopper is silent in the grass:
The lizard, with his shadow on the stone,
Rests like a shadow, and the winds are dead.
The purple flower droops: the golden bee
Is lily-cradled: I alone awake.
My eyes are full of tears, my heart of love,
My heart is breaking, and my eyes are dim,
And I am all aweary of my life.”

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" Oenone http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/tenn/oenone.html", st. 3 (1832)

Love , Life , Flowers , Tear

“Half light, half shade,
She stood, a sight to make an old man young.”

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" The Gardener's Daughter http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/T/TennysonAlfred/verse/englishidyls/gardenersdaughter.html", l. 139-140 (1842)

Light

“Bury the Great Duke
With an empire's lamentation;
Let us bury the Great Duke
To the noise of the mourning of a mighty nation;
Mourning when their leaders fall,
Warriors carry the warrior's pall,
And sorrow darkens hamlet and hall.”

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St. I
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (1852)

“Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Crossing the Bar

St. 2
Crossing the Bar (1889)

Home , Star , Sea

“O eyes long laid in happy sleep!
O happy sleep, that lightly fled!
O happy kiss, that woke thy sleep!
O love, thy kiss would wake the dead!”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Day-Dream

The Departure, st. 3
The Day-Dream (1842)

Love , Kiss , Sleep , Dead

“Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade

St. 3
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)

Death , Hell

“Sir Richard spoke and he laughed, and we roared a hurrah, and so
The little Revenge ran on sheer into the heart of the foe,
With her hundred fighters on deck, and her ninety sick below;
For half of their fleet to the right and half to the left were seen,
And the little Revenge ran on through the long sea-lane between.”

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St. 5
The Revenge (1878)

Revenge , Heart , Sea

“Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die”

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Misquote of the lines "Theirs not to reason why, / theirs but to do and die" from The Charge of the Light Brigade
Misattributed

“The world was never made;
It will change, but it will not fade.
So let the wind range;
For even and morn
Ever will be
Thro’ eternity.
Nothing was born;
Nothing will die;
All things will change.”

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Nothing Will Die (1830)

World , Change

“To do him any wrong was to beget
A kindness from him, for his heart was rich—
Of such fine mould that if you sowed therein
The seed of Hate, it blossomed Charity.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Act iv, scene 1
Queen Mary: A Drama (published 1876)

Hate , Heart

“A princelier-looking man never stept thro' a prince's hall.”

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The Wreck, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Broad-based upon her people’s will,
And compass'd by the inviolate sea.”

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To the Queen, st. 9 (1851)

People , Sea