Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes - Page 15

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• Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?
  I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Harps, Strings

  Lord Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”

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• Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Jealous, Thinking, Fool

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• I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Age, Heirs

  "Locksley Hall" l. 178 (1842)

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• The year is dying in the night.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Night, Years, Dying

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

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• I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Weed, Pain, Lying

  1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 5, l.1-8.

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• And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Stars, Poetry, Desire

  "Ulysses" l. 30 (1842)

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• I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Self, May

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 1

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• There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Science, Clouds, Sea

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.845, Delphi Classics

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• The time draws near the birth of Christ;
  The moon is hid; the night is still;
  The Christmas bells from hill to hill
  Answer each other in the mist.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Christmas, Healing, Moon

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.116, Broadview Press

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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.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Life, Fall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2607, Delphi Classics

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• I will love thee to the death,
  And out beyond into the dream to come.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Thee

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1158, Delphi Classics

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• Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Deep Love, Depth

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

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• Love is hurt with jar and fret;
  Love is made a vague regret.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Hurt, Regret

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ... 'So careful of the type', but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go' ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law- Tho' Nature red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Nature, Prayer

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Obiit MDCCCXXXIIi (Entire)”

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• Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite
  Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love.
  News from the humming city comes to it
  It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Garden, Cities

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Goal, Finals, Ill

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 54

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• By shaping some august decree,
  Which kept her throne unshaken still,
  Broad-based upon her people's will,
  And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sea, People, Broads

  "Fifty Poems".

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• With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Daughter, Heart, Littles

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Song, Heart

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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• I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Singing, Pipe

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.734, Delphi Classics

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• Tho' much is taken, much abides.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Gratitude, Taken, Skyfall

  "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

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• It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, May, Achilles

  "Ulysses" l. 59 (1842)

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• This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Truth, Mind, Boundless

  'The Two Voices' (1842) st. 9

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• Oh good gray head which all men knew!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Gray

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• Man's word is God in man.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Coming of Arthur' (1869) l. 132

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