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Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes

«Great in council and great in war,/ Foremost captain of his time.»
«Half a league, half a league,/ Half a league onward,/ All in the valley of Death/ Rode the six hundred.»
«Half light, half shade,/ She stood, a sight to make an old man young.»
«He seems so near and yet so far.»
«Her tears fell with the dews at even;/ Her tears fell ere the dews were dried.»
«Here at the quiet limit of the world,/ A white-haired shadow roaming like a dream/ The ever-silent spaces of the East.»
«Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height:/ What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang)?»
«Cursed be the gold that gilds the straitened forehead of a fool!»
«Do we indeed desire the dead/ Should still be near us at our side?/ Is there no baseness we would hide?/ No inner vileness that we dread?»
«Drink to lofty hopes that cool -/ Visions of a perfect State.»