Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Past, Men

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th ed., 1919.

• In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Past, Eternity

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

• I am any man's suitor,
  If any will be my tutor:
  Some say this life is pleasant,
  Some think it speedeth fast,
  In time there is no present,
  In eternity no future,
  In eternity no past.
  We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
  Who will riddle me the how and the why?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Past, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

• Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day:
  Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away,
  To sleep! to sleep!
  Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past:
  Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Grief, Heart, Sleep

  "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

• The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Pain, Heart, Loss

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.294, Delphi Classics

• All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Taken, Past, Portions

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

• The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Past, Fields

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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