Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes

So many worlds so much to do So little done such things to be.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Sweet and low sweet and low Wind of the western sea Low low breathe and blow Wind of the western sea!
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Twilight and evening bell And after that the dark.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Home they brought her warrior dead.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Break break break On thy cold gray stones O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Go little letter apace apace Fly Fly to the light in the valley below - Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The war-drum throbb'd no longer and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man the federation of the world.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
A life of nothing's nothing worth From that first nothing ere his birth To that last nothing under earth.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
I chatter chatter as I flow To join the brimming river For men may come and men may go But I go on forever.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Go little letter apace apace Fly Fly to the light in the valley below - Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The war-drum throbb'd no longer and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man the federation of the world.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
A life of nothing's nothing worth From that first nothing ere his birth To that last nothing under earth.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
I chatter chatter as I flow To join the brimming river For men may come and men may go But I go on forever.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Marriages are made in Heaven.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies 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.'
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Sweet and low sweet and low Wind of the western sea Low low breathe and blow Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go Come from the dying moon and blow Blow him again to me While my little one while my pretty one sleeps.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The white flower of a blameless life.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
For tho' 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 crost the bar.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
As the husband is the wife is.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Theirs not to make reply Theirs not to reason why Theirs but to do and die.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds
Lord Alfred Tennyson
I was born to other things.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
God's finger touched him and he slept.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The old order changeth yielding place to new.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Ring out the old ring in the new Ring happy bells across the snow.
Lord Alfred Tennyson