Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• 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 Lord Tennyson

  Soul, Might, Christ

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.897, Delphi Classics

• What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spiritual, Jesus, Flower

• But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Atheism, Church, Christ

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.1093, Cosimo, Inc.

• The time draws near the birth of Christ;
  The moon is hid; the night is still;
  The Christmas bells from hill to hill
  Answer each other in the mist.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Christmas, Healing, Moon

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.116, Broadview Press

• Follow the deer? Follow the Christ the King. Live pure, speak true,right wrong, Follow the King-- Else, wherefore born?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Kings, Deer, Speak

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Gareth and Lynette' (1872) l. 117

• 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 Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Men, Hands

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

• 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

• Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Faith, Jesus, Strong

  1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., prologue, l.1-4.

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