Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes - Page 13

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• O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Names, Voice

  'Northern Farmer. New Style' (1869) st. 5

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• Virtue must shape itself in deed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Shapes, Deeds, Virtue

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.299, Broadview Press

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• Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Believe, Self, Thorough

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• I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Bridges, Cities, Watches

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”

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• Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Blow, White, World

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Coming of Arthur' (1869) l. 481

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• It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Silence, Rift

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Merlin and Vivien' (1859) l. 388

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• Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Eye, Artist, Hair

  'The Gardener's Daughter' (1842) l. 28

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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.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Morning, Wall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.898, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Epic, Doctors

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 2, l. 352

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• Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.611, Delphi Classics

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• And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fall, Kissing, Tears

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.292, Delphi Classics

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• O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, Humility, Son

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”

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• You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, New Year, Queens

  'The May Queen' (1832)

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• Earth is dry to the centre,
  But spring, a new comer,
  A spring rich and strange,
  Shall make the winds blow
  Round and round,
  Thro' and thro',
  Here and there,
  Till the air
  And the ground
  Shall be fill'd with life anew.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spring, Blow, Air

  "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical". Book by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1830.

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• Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Art, Littles, Lord

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

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• Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wind, Littles, Aspens

  'The Lady of Shalott' (1832, revised 1842) pt. 1

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• Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Jewels, Long

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”

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• And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Flower, Blow

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• But for the unquiet heart and brain
  A use in measured language lies;
  The sad mechanic exercise
  Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Pain, Lying, Heart

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

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• For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Golden, Prime

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Recollection Of The Arabian Nights”

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• A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Beauty, Daughter, Tall

  'A Dream of Fair Women' (1832) l. 87

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• Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, Mother, Fall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.699, Delphi Classics

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• Bible reading is an education in itself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Bible, Reading, Biblical

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• That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Fighting, May

  'The Grandmother' (1859) st. 8

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• For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Wrath, Speak

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.153, Broadview Press

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