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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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“Broad-based upon her people’s will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1851 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To the Queen, st. 9 (1851)
“For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.”
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Recorded in: Recollections of the Arabian Nights, stanza 1, from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830)
Also quoted by: Alfred Tennyson
“A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.”
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“As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her played, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.”
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Recorded in: To J. S., stanza 4, from Poems (1832)
Also quoted by: Alfred Tennyson
“Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace! Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll.”
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Recorded in: To J. S., stanza 18, from Poems (1832)
Also quoted by: Alfred Tennyson
“Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet! Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.”
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Recorded in: To J. S., stanza 19, from Poems (1832)
Also quoted by: Alfred Tennyson
“More black than ash-buds in the front of March.”
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Recorded in: The Gardener's Daughter, line 28, from Poems (1842)
Also quoted by: Alfred Tennyson
“We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.”
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Recorded in: The Daydream: L'Envoi, lines 231-32, from The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson (1879)
Also quoted by: Alfred Tennyson
“For now the poet can not 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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Recorded in: To ———, after reading a Life and Letters, stanza 4, from Poems (1850)
“Mastering the lawless science of our law,— That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances.”
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Recorded in: Aylmer's Field (1864); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Also quoted by: Alfred Tennyson
“Insipid as the queen upon a card.”
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Recorded in: Aylmer's Field (1864); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Daisy, Stanza 1; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Also quoted by: Alfred Tennyson
“So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Daisy, Stanza 24; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Also quoted by: Alfred Tennyson
“Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Flower; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Also quoted by: Alfred Tennyson
“I'll never love any but you," the morning song of the lark; "I'll never love any but you," the nightingale's hymn in the dark.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The First Quarrel, stanza VI., lines 3-4; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“My God, I would not live Save that I think this gross hard-seeming world Is our misshaping vision of the Powers Behind the world, that make our griefs our gains.”
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Recorded in: The Sisters, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The golden guess Is morning-star to the full round of truth.”
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Recorded in: Columbus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“No sound is breathed so potent to coerce And to conciliate, as their names who dare For that sweet mother-land which gave them birth Nobly to do, nobly to die.”
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Recorded in: Tiresias, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A princelier-looking man never stept thro' a prince's hall.”
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Recorded in: The Wreck, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Slav, Teuton, Kelt, I count them all My friends and brother souls, With all the peoples, great and small, That wheel between the poles.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epilogue to The Charge of the heavy Brigade, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The song that nerves a nation's heart Is in itself a deed.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epilogue to The Charge of the Heavy Brigade, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“What use to brood? This life of mingled pains And joys to me, Despite of every Faith and Creed, remains The Mystery.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Mary Boyle, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Be patient. Our Playwright may show In some fifth act what this wild Drama means.”
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Recorded in: The Play, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“In our windy world What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harold, Act i, Scene 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A breath that fleets beyond this iron world And touches him who made it.”
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“Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Becket, Prologue, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Ambition Is like the sea wave, which the more you drink The more you thirst—yea—drink too much, as men Have done on rafts of wreck—it drives you mad.”
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Recorded in: The Cup, Act i, Scene 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The night with sudden odour reeled; The southern stars a music pealed.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Rosebud, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Death's truer name Is "Onward," no discordance in the roll And march of that Eternal Harmony Whereto the world beats time.”
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“...none can truly write his single day, And none can write it for him upon earth.”
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Recorded in: Unpublished Sonnet (originally written as a preface to Becket), in Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, by Hallam T. Tennyson (1897)
“A good woman is a wondrous creature, cleaving to the right and to the good under all change: lovely in youthful comeliness, lovely all her life long in comeliness of heart.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Emily Sellwood, quoted in Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, by Hallam T. Tennyson (1897)
“Thou who stealest fire, From the fountains of the past, To glorify the present; oh, haste, Visit my low desire! Strengthen me, enlighten me! I faint in this obscurity, Thou dewy dawn of memory.”
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“In sweet dreams softer than unbroken rest Thou leddest by the hand thine infant Hope. The eddying of her garments caught from thee The light of thy great presence; and the cope Of the half-attain'd futurity, Though deep not fathomless, Was cloven with the million stars which tremble O'er the deep mind of dauntless infancy.”
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“Come forth I charge thee, arise, Thou of the many tongues, the myriad eyes! Thou comest not with shows of flaunting vines Unto mine inner eye, Divinest Memory!”
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“Whither in after life retired From brawling storms, From weary wind, With youthful fancy reinspired, We may hold converse with all forms Of the many-sided mind, And those whom passion hath not blinded, Subtle-thoughted, myriad-minded.”
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“When will the stream be aweary of flowing Under my eye? When will the wind be aweary of blowing Over the sky? When will the clouds be aweary of fleeting? When will the heart be aweary of beating? And nature die? Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.”
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“Nothing will die; All things will change Thro’ eternity. ‘Tis the world’s winter; Autumn and summer Are gone long ago; Earth is dry to the centre, But spring, a new comer, A spring rich and strange, Shall make the winds blow Round and round, Thro’ and thro’, Here and there, Till the air And the ground Shall be fill’d with life anew.”
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“The world was never made; It will change, but it will not fade. So let the wind range; For even and morn Ever will be Thro’ eternity. Nothing was born; Nothing will die; All things will change.”
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“The poet in a golden clime was born, With golden stars above; Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love. He saw thro' life and death, thro' good and ill, He saw thro' his own soul. The marvel of the everlasting will, An open scroll, Before him lay; with echoing feet he threaded The secretest walks of fame: The viewless arrows of his thoughts were headed And wing'd with flame, Like Indian reeds blown from his silver tongue...”
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“So many minds did gird their orbs with beams, Tho' one did fling the fire; Heaven flow'd upon the soul in many dreams Of high desire.”
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“Thus truth was multiplied on truth, the world Like one great garden show'd, And thro' the wreaths of floating dark up-curl'd, Rare sunrise flow'dAnd Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise Her beautiful bold brow, When rites and forms before his burning eyes Melted like snow.”
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“There was no blood upon her maiden robes Sunn'd by those orient skies; But round about the circles of the globes Of her keen And in her raiment's hem was traced in flame WISDOM, a name to shake All evil dreams of power — a sacred name. And when she spake, Her words did gather thunder as they ran, And as the lightning to the thunder Which follows it, riving the spirit of man, Making earth wonder, So was their meaning to her words. No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd, But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Of me you shall not win renown: You thought to break a country heart For pastime, ere you went to town. At me you smiled, but unbeguiled I saw the snare, and I retired; The daughter of a hundred earls, You are not one to be desired.”
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“A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.”
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“You sought to prove how I could love, And my disdain is my reply. The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I.”
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“Her manners had not that repose Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.”
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Also quoted by: Alfred Tennyson
“From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.”
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Also quoted by: Alfred Tennyson
“Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.”
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“In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon.”
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