Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes - Page 17

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• This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Science, Men, Light

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.636, Delphi Classics

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• I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Self, May

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 1

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• After-dinner talk
  Across the walnuts and the wine.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wine, Dinner, Walnuts

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine,
  Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Passion, Wine, Men

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• 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)

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• With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Daughter, Heart, Littles

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Singing, Pipe

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.734, Delphi Classics

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• And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Stars, Poetry, Desire

  "Ulysses" l. 30 (1842)

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• Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Goal, Finals, Ill

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 54

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• There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Wall, Lying

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.1028, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving, Good Luck, Shoes

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.511, Delphi Classics

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• So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hate, Loss, Weight

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.887, Delphi Classics

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• All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving, Forever, Experience

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• Red of the Dawn
  Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay
  The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Freedom, Dawn, Red

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• Behold, we know not anything;
  I can but trust that good shall fall
  At last-far off-at last, to all,
  And every winter change to spring.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hope, Spring, Fall

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 54

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• Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail
  Against her beauty? May she mix
  With men and prosper! Who shall fix
  Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Knowledge, Men, Her Beauty

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.836, Delphi Classics

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• God gives us love. Something to love
  He lends us; but when love is grown
  To ripeness, that on which it throve
  Falls off, and love is left alone.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Life, Fall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2607, Delphi Classics

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• Come, Time, and teach me many years,
  I do not suffer in dream;
  For now so strange do these things seem,
  Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Time, Eye

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.50, Broadview Press

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• I will love thee to the death,
  And out beyond into the dream to come.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Thee

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1158, Delphi Classics

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• Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Deep Love, Depth

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

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• Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Walks

  "The Lover's Tale". Book by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1879.

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• Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?
  I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Harps, Strings

  Lord Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”

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• Love is hurt with jar and fret;
  Love is made a vague regret.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Hurt, Regret

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Peace, War, Years

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Life, Sight

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

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