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In the novel The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898), by Arthur Conan Doyle, characters quote the poem by citing Canto LIV of In Memoriam: "Oh yet we trust that somehow good / will be the final goal of ill"; and by citing Canto LV: I falter where I firmly trod"; whilst another character says that Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam is "the grandest and the ...
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. * * * Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw. With ravine, shriek'd against his creed — From Cantos 27 and 56, In Memoriam A.H.H., by Alfred Tennyson, published this year
A number of phrases from Tennyson's work have become commonplace in the English language, including "Nature, red in tooth and claw" ("In Memoriam A.H.H."), "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is ...
Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness; Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt; Better wear out than rust out; Beware of Greeks bearing gifts (Trojan War, Virgil in the Aeneid) [9] Big fish eat little fish
Poems, by Alfred Tennyson, was a two-volume 1842 collection in which new poems and reworked older ones were printed in separate volumes.It includes some of Tennyson's finest and best-loved poems, [1] [2] such as Mariana, The Lady of Shalott, The Palace of Art, The Lotos Eaters, Ulysses, Locksley Hall, The Two Voices, Sir Galahad, and Break, Break, Break.
Poems of the Imagination: 1800 Tis said, that some have died for love 1800 " 'Tis said, that some have died for love:" Poems founded on the Affections. 1800 The Childless Father 1800 "'Up, Timothy, up with your staff and away!" Poems founded on the Affections. 1800 Song for The Wandering Jew 1800 "Though the torrents from their fountains"
Ich have loved al þis er þat y may love namore, Ich have siked moni syk lemmon for þin ore. Me nis love never þe ner ant þat me reweþ sore. Suete lemmon þench on me—ich have loved þe ore. Suete lemmon y preye þe of love one speche, Whil y lyve in world so wyde oþer nulle y seche. Wiþ þy love my suete leof mi blis þou mihtes eche,
"Because I could not stop for Death" is a lyrical poem by Emily Dickinson first published posthumously in Poems: Series 1 in 1890. Dickinson's work was never authorized to be published, so it is unknown whether "Because I could not stop for Death" was completed or "abandoned". [1] The speaker of Dickinson's poem meets personified Death. Death ...