Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Silence, Rift

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Merlin and Vivien' (1859) l. 388

• Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Prayer, Home, Eye

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 32

• He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Friendship, Justice, Judging

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1243, Delphi Classics

• There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sea, Water, Silence

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 19

• Silence, beautiful voice.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Beautiful, Voice, Silence

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

• All night have the roses heard
  The flute, violin, bassoon;
  All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
  To the dancers dancing in tune;
  Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
  And a hush with the setting moon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dance, Moon, Night

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.890, Delphi Classics

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