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Lyriker (England, 1809 - 1892).
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Lord Alfred Tennyson wäre heute 214 Jahre, 9 Monate, 9 Tage oder 78.445 Tage alt.
Geboren am 06.08.1809 in Somersby/Lincolnshire
Gestorben am 06.10.1892 in Aldworth
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
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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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There, where the longstreet roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea.
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They take the rustic murmur of their bourg For the great wave that echoes round the world.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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This grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
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This is my son, mine own Telemachus.
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This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
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This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.
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Through all the circle of the golden year.
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To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
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To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own word as if his God's.
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To sleep I give my powers away; My will is bondsman to the dark.
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Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
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Vex not thou the poet's mind With thy shallow wit: Vex not thou the poet's mind; For thou canst not fathom it.
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We shall live to fight again and to strike another blow.
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Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.
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Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, 'My life is dreary, He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!' Her tears fell with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried.
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Whatever crazy sorrow saith, no life that breathes with human breath has ever truly longed for death.