Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes - Page 11

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• Better not be at all than not be noble.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Noble, Human Nature

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.635, Delphi Classics

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• Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,
  And the winter winds are wearily sighing:
  Toll ye the church bell sad and slow,
  And tread softly and speak low,
  For the old year lies a-dying.
  Old year you must not die;
  You came to us so readily,
  You lived with us so steadily,
  Old year you shall not die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Winter, Church Bells

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.348, Delphi Classics

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• For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moon, Different, Cocoons

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.474, Delphi Classics

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• The night comes on that knows not morn,
  When I shall cease to be all alone,
  To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Night, And Love

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.283, Delphi Classics

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• That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Branches, Conservative

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• But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Grace, Come Back To Me

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2578, Delphi Classics

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• Our wills are ours, we know not how;
  Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Knows

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.711, Delphi Classics

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• The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mirrors, Cracks, Sides

  "The Lady of Shalott" pt. 3, st. 5 (1832)

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• She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Knights, Loyal

  Alfred Tennyson, Geneviève Côté (2009). “The Lady of Shalott”, p.17, Kids Can Press Ltd

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• Who is this? And what is here? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer; And they crossed themselves for fear, All the Knights at Camelot; But Lancelot mused a little space He said, "She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Cheer, Space, Knights

  1832 Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised 1842), pt.4, l.168-71.

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• What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Rights, Conflict, Dare

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• Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Running, Wall, Flower

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Professor Norman Page (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.20, Routledge

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• 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.

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• Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Funny, Age, Toil

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 44

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• Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

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  Nature, World, Sparrows

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.216, Broadview Press

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• Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Sweet, Voice

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 7, l. 203, song (added 1850)

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• 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

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• . . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Prayer

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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• The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Sick, Shadow

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.55

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• What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.

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  Mother, Atheism, Doe

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1373, Delphi Classics

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• The white flower of a blameless life.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Flower, White

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) Dedication (1862) l. 24

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• A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Sorrow, Crowns

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 75.

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• Too much wit makes the world rotten.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Rotten, World, Too Much

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

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• What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Fancy, Matter

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Faith, Heart, Simple

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

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