Alfred Tennyson

“ And Doubt is the lord of this dunghill and crows to the sun and the moon,
Till the Sun and the Moon of our science are both of them turn'd into blood,
And Hope will have broken her heart, running after a shadow of good ”

“ Nature moved by Universal Mind;
Thou majestic in thy sadness
at the doubtful doom of human kind;
VII.
Light among the vanish'd ages;
star that gildest yet this phantom shore;
Golden branch amid the shadows,
kings and realms that pass to rise no more ”

“ A planet equal to the sun
Which cast it, that large infidel
Your Omar; and your Omar drew
Full-handed plaudits from our best
In modern letters, and from two,
Old friends outvaluing all the rest,
Two voices heard on earth no more ”

“ Pity for all that aches in the grasp of an idiot power,
And pity for our own selves on an earth that bore not a flower;
Pity for all that suffers on land or in air or the deep,
And pity for our own selves till we long'd for eternal sleep. ”

“ Broke thro' the mass from below,
Drove thro' the midst of the foe,
Plunged up and down, to and fro,
Rode flashing blow upon blow,
Brave Inniskillens and Greys
Whirling their sabres in circles of light! ”

“ Once more the Heavenly Power
⁠Makes all things new,
And domes the red-plow'd hills
⁠With loving blue;
The blackbirds have their wills,
⁠The throstles too. ”

“ The stars are from their hands
⁠Flung thro' the woods,
IV.
The woods with living airs
⁠How softly fann'd,
Light airs from where the deep,
⁠All down the sand,
Is breathing in his sleep,
⁠Heard by the land. ”

“ To the charge, and he rode on ahead, as he waved his blade
To the gallant three hundred whose glory will never die–
'Follow,' and up the hill, up the hill, up the hill,
Follow'd the Heavy Brigade.
II.
The trumpet, the gallop, the charge, and the might of the fight!
Thousands of horsemen had gather'd there on the height,
With a wing push'd out to the left, and a wing to the right,
And who shall escape if they close? but he dash'd up alone
Thro' the great gray slope of men,
Sway'd his sabre, and held his own
Like an Englishman there and then ”

“ A man and his wife having lost faith in a God, and hope of a life to come, and being utterly miserable in this, resolve to end themselves by drowning. The woman is drowned, but the man rescued by a minister of the sect he had abandoned. ”