Alfred Tennyson

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    She only said, ‘My life is dreary,
    He cometh not,’ she said;
    She said, ‘I am aweary, aweary,
    I would that I were dead!’
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Now fades the lasts long streak of snow,
    Now burgeons every maze of quick
    About the flowering squares, and thick
    By ashen roots the violets blow.
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)