Sweet Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

16 Sweet quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Tennyson’s mastery of rhythm shines through when he turns to sweeter subjects. This sixteen‑line set captures his elegant phrasing and the comforting cadence that makes his poetry feel like a warm conversation.

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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.

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Sweet is true love, though given in vain.

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Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.

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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.

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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of…

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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…

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Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of…

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The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days…

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O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns…

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Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain…

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Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep…

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