Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.
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He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.
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The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.
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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
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I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!
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Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.
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Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
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I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. ... Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. ... Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.
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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.
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As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.