Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes - Page 14

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• Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Flower, Light

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

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• The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dirty, Nurse, Experience

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Last Tournament' (1859) l. 317

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• All is well, tho' faith and form
  Be sunder'd in the night of fear.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fear, Night, Form

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.138, Broadview Press

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• The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fall, Decay, Woods

  "Tithonus" l. 1 (1860 - 1864)

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• We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Morning, Earth

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good,
  And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Science, Climbing, Mud

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1434, Delphi Classics

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• I am on fire within.
  There comes no murmur of reply.
  What is it that will take away my sin,
  And save me lest I die?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fire, Sin, Save Me

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• Sweet is true love, though given in vain.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Sweet, Vain

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sad, Land, Claims

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Freedom, Hands, Mets

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• Of old sat Freedom on the heights
  The thunders breaking at her feet:
  Above her shook the starry lights;
  She heard the torrents meet.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Freedom, Light, Feet

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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• Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dark, Men, Race

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 46

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• For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fighting, Son, Gun

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• 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

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• Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Science, Law, Wilderness

  "Aylmer's Field" st. 18 (1864)

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• Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Law, And Love, Teeth

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 56

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• And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Common, Grain, Wells

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 6

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• Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Father, Boys, Men

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Obiit MDCCCXXXIIi (Entire)”

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• We love but while we may;
  And therefore is my love so large for thee,
  Seeing it is not bounded save by love.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, May, Thee

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.228, Courier Corporation

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• The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hurt, Honor, Helping

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ... 'So careful of the type', but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go' ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law- Tho' Nature red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Nature, Prayer

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Obiit MDCCCXXXIIi (Entire)”

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• Every moment dies a man,
  Every moment one is born.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Men, Mathematics

  'The Vision of Sin' (1842) pt. 4, st. 9.

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• Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Ocean, Sea, Stones

  "Break, Break, Break" l. 1 (1842)

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• I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Light, Air, Perfect

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 640

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• The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Swans, Hymns, Joy

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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