Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes - Page 9

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• 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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• Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Islands, Stories, Way

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Professor Norman Page (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.115, Routledge

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• The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Recalls

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 46

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• Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls:
  Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

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• Many a night I saw the Pleiads,
  Rising thro' the mellow shade,
  Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies,
  Tangled in a silver braid.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Stars, Science, Night

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.112, Cambridge University Press

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• And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Delight, Spirit, Equal

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.71, Broadview Press

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• I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, Summer, Lying

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 424

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• Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Military, Conquer, Arise

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1178, Delphi Classics

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• Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Soul, Mind, May

  In Memoriam prologue, st. 7 (1850)

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• Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light,
  The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow,
  Drops in a silent autumn night.
  All its allotted length of days
  The flower ripens in its place,
  Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,
  Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Flower, Fall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.37, Routledge

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• That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Morning, Heart, Loss

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.185, Cambridge University Press

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• The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moon, Long, Long Day

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 44

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• Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.453, Delphi Classics

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• And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hands, Voice, Sound

  "Break, Break, Break" l. 9 (1842)

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• Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Twilight, Farewell

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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• The sin
  That neither God nor man can well forgive.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1240, Delphi Classics

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• Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, Change, Science

  "Locksley Hall" l. 181 (1842)

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• One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Knowing Nothing, Knowing, Obedience

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fall, Dust, Hands

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.135, Broadview Press

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• Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Names, Storm

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Long, Mechanic

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.453, Delphi Classics

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• Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Children, Lying

  'Come not, when I am dead' (1850)

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• All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving On, Experience, World

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Earth, Lasts, Firsts

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• Of old sat Freedom on the heights
  The thunders breaking at her feet:
  Above her shook the starry lights;
  She heard the torrents meet.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Freedom, Light, Feet

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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