Quotes from The Princess — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1809–1892 England
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There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.
Current among men,
Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
The bearing and the training of a child
Is woman's wisdom.
Fear
Stared in her eyes, and chalk'd her face.
With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans,
And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair.
A rosebud set with little wilful thorns,
And sweet as English air could make her, she.
Steps with a tender foot, light as on air,
The lovely, lordly creature floated on.
Better not to be at all
Than not be noble.
Jewels five-words-long,
That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time
Sparkle for ever.
On the lecture slate
The circle rounded under female hands
With flawless demonstration.
O we fell out, I know not why,
And kiss'd again with tears.
Morn in the white wake of the morning star
Came furrowing all the orient into gold.
Then came your new friend: you began to change—
I saw it and grieved.
Home they brought her warrior dead.
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