Quote by Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Not such his wont, as we, that know him, know."" — Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from Lancelot and Elaine
"The yule-clog sparkled keen with frost, No wing of wind the region swept, But over all things brooding slept The quiet …" from Canto LXXVI
"I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, "O Soul, make merry and carouse, Dea…" from The Palace Of Art
"But there is more than I can see, And what I see I leave unsaid, Nor speak it, knowing Death has made His darkness beau…" from Canto LXXII
"Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in …" from Break, Break, Break,
"As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen: One praised her ancles, one her eyes, One her dar…" from The Beggar Maid
"Then fell on Merlin a great melancholy; He walk'd with dreams and darkness, and he found A doom that ever poised itself…" from Merlin and Vivien
"And moving thro' a mirror clear That hangs before her all the year, Shadows of the world appear. There she sees the hi…" from Part II
"But thou and I have shaken hands, Till growing winters lay me low; My paths are in the fields I know, And thine in undi…" from Canto XXXIX
"And what I seem beheld again What is, and no man understands; And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' natur…" from Canto CXXII