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Alfred Tennyson
105 quotes
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“I am going a long way With these thou seëst--if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)-- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! Blow, bugle! answer, echoes! dying, dying, dying.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love,-- Deep as first love, and wild with all regret. Oh death in life, the days that are no more!”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“That jewell'd mass of millinery, That oil'd and curl'd Assyrian Bull.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Gorgonized me from head to foot, With a stony British stare.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown; Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Let knowledge grow from more to more.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“And topples round the dreary west A looming bastion fringed with fire.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“The shadow cloak'd from head to foot.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Who keeps the keys of all the creeds.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Hold thou the good; define it well; For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“The great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Who battled for the True, the Just.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Thy leaf has perish'd in the green, And while we breathe beneath the sun, The world, which credits what is done, Is cold to all that might have been.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“O last regret, regret can die!”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“He seems so near, and yet so far.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky!”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow!”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in!”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace!”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand! Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be!”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source