Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.
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Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a morning pure and sweet, And the light and shadow fleet; She is walking in the meadow, And the woodland echo rings; In a moment we shall meet; She is singing in the meadow, And the rivulet at her feet Ripples on in light and shadow To the ballad that she sings.
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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
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She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthly bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.
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Science grows and Beauty dwindles.
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All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.
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That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
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The woman is so hard Upon the woman.
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For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.
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The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried.
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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?
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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.