Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About Grief

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  • I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

    1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 5, l.1-8.
  • Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

    Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Maud: A Monodrama (Part Ii, Excerpt)”
  • Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

    Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ring Out , Wild Bells”
  • Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

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    "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.
  • Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Professor Norman Page (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.102, Routledge
  • I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.

    1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 5, l.1-8.
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