Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (/ ˈtɛnɪsən /; 6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria 's reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu".
Poems
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Inspiring poetry which take us inward.
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From the Book: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying By the power and the truth of this practice, may all beings have happiness, and the causes of happiness. May all be free from sorrow, and the causes of sorrow. May all never be separated from the sacred happiness which is sorrowless. And may…
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The following set of instructions were given by Madame Blavatsky, a Principal Co-Founder of the Theosophical Society, to some of her earnest students in London in 1888: 'A clean life, an open mind, a pure heart, an eager intellect, an unveiled spiritual perception, a brotherliness for one's…
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Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not ; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems! Sir Edwin Arnold There is a road,…
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There are three truths which are absolute, and which cannot be lost, but yet may remain silent for lack of speech. » The soul of man is immortal, and its future is the future of a thing whose growth and splendor has no limit. …
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The authoress of these poems, Mrs. Mary C. A. Bright, a member of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society, Sydney, N. S. W .-has kindly asked me to pen a few words of introduction to this her first published book. Poems are not yet very plentiful in Theosophical literature. The…
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From his early Sonnets in 1872, Alfred Lord Tennyson writes freely about past lives and existence ... As when, with downcast eyes As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood, And ebb into a former life, or seem To lapse far back in some confused dream To states of mystical similitude; If…
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CHAPTER I Dhritirashtra. Ranged thus for battle on the sacred plain -- On Kurukshetra -- say, Sanjaya! say What wrought my people, and the Pandavas? Sanjaya. When he beheld the host of Pandavas, Raja Duryodhana to Drona drew, And spake these words: "Ah, Guru! see this line, How vast…
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Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole day? From morn to night, my friend. Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that…
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After the loss of a loved one, we may feel like expressing in words our thoughts on the transition to a new state of awareness. Whether it is to family members or something that we may wish to read out at a funeral, there is not a lot of poetry with a theosophical flavour in which our expressions…
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DOES the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face? You cannot miss that…
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My spirit to yours dear brother, Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you, I do not sound your name, but I understand you, I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also, That we all labour…