Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About Death
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Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.
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The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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God's finger touched him, and he slept.
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Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
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Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.
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Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.
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Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
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Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.
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The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.
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Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
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Authority forgets a dying king.
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