Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• God's finger touched him, and he slept.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Grieving, Funeral

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 85

• Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, Death, Light

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 50

• Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Past, Men

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th ed., 1919.

• Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Heart, Blow

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.222, Delphi Classics

• Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Men, Thinking

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) prologue

• The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Death, Lying

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 1

• Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, War, Poetry

  "The Charge of the Light Brigade" l. 1 (1854)

• Authority forgets a dying king.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Kings, Dying

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 289

• Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Twilight, Farewell

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

• Every man at time of Death,
  Would fain set forth some saying that may live
  After his death and better humankind;
  For death gives life's last word a power to live,
  And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
  After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Lying, Cutting

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.204

• The night comes on that knows not morn,
  When I shall cease to be all alone,
  To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Night, And Love

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.283, Delphi Classics

• 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.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Stars, Sunset

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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