Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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Faith lives in honest doubt.
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I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
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And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?
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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.
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If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.
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Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.
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Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.
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All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
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Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.
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The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.
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Virtue must shape itself in deed.
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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
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But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
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But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Bible reading is an education in itself.
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I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.