Lord Alfred Tennyson

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.

Give place to your superiors.

Give place to your superiors.

Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.

Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.

Some full-breasted swan
That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,
Ruffles her pure cold plume, and read more

Some full-breasted swan
That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,
Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood
With swarthy webs.