Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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God and Nature met in light.
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The thrall in person may be free in soul.
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
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Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.
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Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.
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Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.
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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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I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.
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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.
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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
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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?
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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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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?
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I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.
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And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.
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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.
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Bible reading is an education in itself.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.