Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strong, Taken, Heart

  "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

• Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Prayer, Heaven, Storm

• Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mom, Mother, Blessed

• Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Funny, Women, Heaven

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.133, Courier Corporation

• But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Single, Independent, Air

• From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Blue, Long, Wife

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

• I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hate, Heart, Men

• 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.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Smile, Heart, Simple

  "Lady Clara Vere de Vere" l. 55 (1842)

• We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hate, Self, Heaven

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1993, Delphi Classics

• To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Passion, Men, Years

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 472

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