Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes - Page 16

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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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• 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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• The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Dark, Men

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (2004). “Selected Poems”, p.142, Penguin UK

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• Behold, we know not anything;
  I can but trust that good shall fall
  At last-far off-at last, to all,
  And every winter change to spring.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hope, Spring, Fall

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

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• France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Light, Blood

  1886 'Locksley Hall Sixty Years After', l.89-90.

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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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• 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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• For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Scandal, Cold

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2758, Delphi Classics

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• Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail
  Against her beauty? May she mix
  With men and prosper! Who shall fix
  Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Knowledge, Men, Her Beauty

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.836, 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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• The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Swans, Hymns, Joy

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fate, Issues, Veils

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.128, Cambridge University Press

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• Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Swans, Ruffles, Cold

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 434

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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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• 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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• 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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• Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Walks

  "The Lover's Tale". Book by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1879.

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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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• Half a league, half a league,
  Half a league onward,
  All in the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  League, Valleys, Half

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

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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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• 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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• In the afternoon they came unto a land
  In which it seemed always afternoon.
  All round the coast the languid air did swoon,
  Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Air, Land

  1832 Poems,'The Lotos - Eaters', l.1-6.

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• What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Gleam, Ants, Sun

  1889 'Vastness', stanza 2, l.4.

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• Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Clouds, House

  'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 8 (1842 revision)

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• I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Profit, Humans, Knows

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.96, Broadview Press

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