Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
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All things human change.
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Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
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Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.
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And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.
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Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.
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And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long.
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...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
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I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
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How fares it with the happy dead?
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A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.
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Where love could walk with banish'd, Hope no more.
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Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
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Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
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Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
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Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace; Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.