He clasps the crag with hooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls:
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Eagles
Quotes, by Lord Alfred Tennyson , Source: The Eagle
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Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens?
If all the world were falcons, what of that?
The wonder of the eagle were the less,
But he not less the eagle.
Eagles
Quotes, by Lord Alfred Tennyson , Source: Golden Year (l. 37)
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When cats run home and light is come,
And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far-off stream is dumb,
And the whirring sail goes round,
And the whirring sail goes round;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.
Owls
Quotes, by Lord Alfred Tennyson , Source: Song--The Owl
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We keep the day. With festal cheer,
With books and music, surely we
Will drink to him, whate'er he be,
And sing the songs he loved to hear.
Festivities
Quotes, by Lord Alfred Tennyson , Source: In Memoriam (CVII)
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Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Will
Quotes, by Lord Alfred Tennyson , Source: In Memoriam--Introduction (st. 4)
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To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay
Till the end o' the daay
An the last load hoam.
Fidelity
Quotes, by Lord Alfred Tennyson , Source: The Promise of May (act II), a song
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And so the Word had breath, and wrought
With human hands the creed of creeds
In loveliness of perfect deeds,
More strong than all poetic thoughts;
Which he may read that binds the sheaf,
Or builds the house, or digs the grave,
And those wild eyes that watch the waves
In roarings round the coral reef.
Christ
Quotes, by Lord Alfred Tennyson , Source: In Memoriam (XXXVI)
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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 though he trip and fall,
He shall not blind his soul with clay.
Motherhood
Quotes, by Lord Alfred Tennyson , Source: Princess (canto VII, l. 308)
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And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck
Shall fling her old shoe after.
Luck
Quotes, by Lord Alfred Tennyson , Source: Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue (st. 27)
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The time draws near the birth of Christ:
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.
Christmas
Quotes, by Lord Alfred Tennyson , Source: In Memoriam (XXVIII)
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All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call;
It was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all;
The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll,
And in the wild March-morning I heard them call my soul.
March
Quotes, by Lord Alfred Tennyson , Source: The May Queen (conclusion)
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