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Alfred Tennyson
105 quotes
“Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Across the walnuts and the wine.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“O love! O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,-- These three alone lead life to sovereign power.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'T is only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow 'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,-- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I 'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I 'm to be queen o' the May.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Ah, why Should life all labour be?”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“I am a part of all that I have met.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use,-- As tho' to breathe were life!”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Here at the quiet limit of the world.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“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.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“But oh for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh good gray head which all men knew!”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Not once or twice in our rough-island story The path of duty was the way to glory.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“All in the valley of death Rode the six hundred.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Some one had blunder'd: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them. . . . . Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright; But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source