Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About Music
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The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.
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For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.
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Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
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The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
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I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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