Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  House, Soul, Ease

  'The Palace of Art' (1832) st. 1

• Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasp'd no more - Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Morning, Rain, Heart

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 7

• And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strong, Eye, Hands

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.122, Broadview Press

• The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, House, Soul

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “By An Evolutionist”

• Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Clouds, House

  'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 8 (1842 revision)

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