Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes - Page 11

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• Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Travel, Observation

  "Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir By His Son, Volume II". Book by Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson (p. 73), 1897.

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• Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Brother, Men, Something New

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 117

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• I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Vex, Want

  'Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue' (1842) st. 6

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• In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Weed, Clothes, Cold

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.98, Broadview Press

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• Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Running, Age, Purpose

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 137

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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.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, Wind, Play

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.521, Delphi Classics

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• Better not be at all than not be noble.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Noble, Human Nature

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.635, Delphi Classics

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• For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moon, Different, Cocoons

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.474, Delphi Classics

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• 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

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• Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,
  And the winter winds are wearily sighing:
  Toll ye the church bell sad and slow,
  And tread softly and speak low,
  For the old year lies a-dying.
  Old year you must not die;
  You came to us so readily,
  You lived with us so steadily,
  Old year you shall not die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Winter, Church Bells

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.348, Delphi Classics

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• That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Branches, Conservative

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• But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Grace, Come Back To Me

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2578, Delphi Classics

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• And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strong, Eye, Hands

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.122, Broadview Press

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• Every moment dies a man,
  Every moment one is born.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Men, Mathematics

  'The Vision of Sin' (1842) pt. 4, st. 9.

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• And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Perfect, Delight, Pure

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.58, Broadview Press

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• Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Peace, War, Years

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mirrors, Cracks, Sides

  "The Lady of Shalott" pt. 3, st. 5 (1832)

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• Our wills are ours, we know not how;
  Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Knows

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.711, Delphi Classics

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• Who is this? And what is here? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer; And they crossed themselves for fear, All the Knights at Camelot; But Lancelot mused a little space He said, "She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Cheer, Space, Knights

  1832 Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised 1842), pt.4, l.168-71.

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• She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Knights, Loyal

  Alfred Tennyson, Geneviève Côté (2009). “The Lady of Shalott”, p.17, Kids Can Press Ltd

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• What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Rights, Conflict, Dare

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• Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Running, Wall, Flower

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Professor Norman Page (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.20, Routledge

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• But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Atheism, Church, Christ

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.1093, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, Atheism, Doe

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1373, Delphi Classics

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• Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Funny, Age, Toil

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 44

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