Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes - Page 8

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• We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Brother, Men, Hints

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• Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Twilight, Farewell

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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• Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Dog, Hunts

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 79

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• Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wall, Flower, Space

  1832 Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised 1842), pt.1, l.15-18.

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• The woman is so hard Upon the woman.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Women, Hard

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 6, l. 205

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• Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Past, Men

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th ed., 1919.

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• He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dog, Horse, Passion

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 49

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• The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Dwarves, Together

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• A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Smile, Home

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• Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Song, Echoes, Rivers

  'The Lady of Shalott' (1832, revised 1842) pt. 1

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• The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wall, Fall, Blow

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

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• Science grows and Beauty dwindles.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Science, Growth, Grows

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• I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lakes, Wind, Sea

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.907, Delphi Classics

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• There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be;
  There are no hearts like English hearts,
  Such hearts of oak as they be;
  There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be:
  There are no men like Englishmen,
  So tall and bold as they be!
  And these will strike for England,
  And man and maid be free
  To foil and spoil the tyrant
  Beneath the greenwood tree.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Men, Light

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• How fares it with the happy dead?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.72, Broadview Press

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• Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Loss, Voice

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “From "The Princess"”

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• Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Song, Wings, Singing

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 48

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• Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Islands, Stories, Way

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Professor Norman Page (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.115, Routledge

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• The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Cities, Piano

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Gareth and Lynette' (1872) l. 272

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• Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Laughter, Eye

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Maud: A Monodrama (Part Ii, Excerpt)”

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• The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Recalls

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

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• Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls:
  Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

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• Many a night I saw the Pleiads,
  Rising thro' the mellow shade,
  Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies,
  Tangled in a silver braid.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Stars, Science, Night

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.112, Cambridge University Press

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• Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. 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

  Travel, Moving, Shining

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Delight, Spirit, Equal

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.71, Broadview Press

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