Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes - Page 6

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• Ah, when shall all men's good
  Be each man's rule, and universal peace
  Lie like a shaft of light across the land,
  And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
  Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Peace, Lying, Men

  'The Golden Year' (1846) l. 47

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• Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Reason Why, Reason, Dies

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• How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Shining, Age

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Winning, Perfect, May

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

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• For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Graduation, Future, Eye

  "Locksley Hall" l. 119 (1842)

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• My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Stars, Sunset, Purpose

  "Ulysses" l. 59 (1842)

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• Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Looks, Remember

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Reason, Photograph, Cameron

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• Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Glimpse, Forgotten

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spiritual, Real, Believe

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• Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Hunting, Games

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 5, l. 147

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• How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dad, Father, Boys

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.766, Delphi Classics

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• Here at the quiet limit of the world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  World, Roaming, Limits

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 1

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• That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Better Now, Ifs

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• 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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• Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasp'd no more - Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Morning, Rain, Heart

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 7

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• Love will conquer at the last.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Lasts, Conquer

  "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After". Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1886.

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• The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strange, Far Away, Charm

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1897). “A Memoir By His Son”

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• I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Grief, Soul

  1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 5, l.1-8.

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• And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fall, Kissing, Blessing

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 2, song (added 1850)

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• Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Years, Europe, Fifty

  "Locksley Hall" l. 184 (1842)

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• The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Husband, Heart, Wife

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.177

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• Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime
  With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Beach, Science, Long

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.76, Broadview Press

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• The mighty hopes that make us men.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hope, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.800, Delphi Classics

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• Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Men, Thinking

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) prologue

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