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Best Quotes by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (112)

Discover the most loved quotes from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poetry.

"The yule-clog sparkled keen with frost, No wing of wind the region swept, But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost." from Canto LXXVI · 7 ♥

"I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, "O Soul, make merry and carouse, Dear soul, for all is well."" from The Palace Of Art · 5 ♥

"But there is more than I can see, And what I see I leave unsaid, Nor speak it, knowing Death has made His darkness beautiful with thee." from Canto LXXII · 4 ♥

"Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me." from Break, Break, Break, · 4 ♥

"As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen: One praised her ancles, one her eyes, One her dark hair and lovesome mien. So sweet a face, such angel grace, In all that land h…" from The Beggar Maid · 4 ♥

"Then fell on Merlin a great melancholy; He walk'd with dreams and darkness, and he found A doom that ever poised itself to fall, An ever-moaning battle in the mist, World-war of dying flesh against t…" from Merlin and Vivien · 3 ♥

"And moving thro' a mirror clear That hangs before her all the year, Shadows of the world appear. There she sees the highway near Winding down to Camelot: There the river eddy whirls, And there the s…" from Part II · 3 ♥

"But thou and I have shaken hands, Till growing winters lay me low; My paths are in the fields I know, And thine in undiscover'd lands." from Canto XXXIX · 3 ♥

""This madness has come on us for our sins."" from The Holy Grail · 3 ♥

"And what I seem beheld again What is, and no man understands; And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men." from Canto CXXII · 3 ♥

"My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts…" from Sir Galahad · 3 ♥

"It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and k…" from Ulysses · 3 ♥

"Slav, Teuton, Kelt, I count them all My friends and brother souls, With all the peoples, great and small, That wheel between the poles." from Epilogue · 3 ♥

"Sharers of our glorious past, Brothers, must we part at last? Shall we not thro' good and ill Cleave to one another still? Britain's myriad voices call, 'Sons, be welded each and all Into one imperia…" from Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen · 3 ♥

"Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest we rust in ease. We all are changed by still degrees, All but the basis of the soul." from Love Thou Thy Land, With Love Far-Brought · 3 ♥

"Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts, that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still." from A Dream of Fair Women · 3 ♥

"And thither wending there that night they bode." from Lancelot and Elaine · 2 ♥

""He owns the fatal gift of eyes, That read his spirit blindly wise, Not simple as a thing that dies." from The Two Voices · 2 ♥

"So was their meaning to her words. No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd, But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world." from The Poet · 2 ♥

"Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." from Lady Clara Vere De Vere · 2 ♥

"Come then, pure hands, and bear the head That sleeps or wears the mask of sleep, And come, whatever loves to weep, And hear the ritual of the dead." from Canto XVIII · 2 ♥

"But I remain'd, whose hopes were dim, Whose life, whose thoughts were little worth, To wander on a darken'd earth, Where all things round me breathed of him." from Canto LXXXIII · 2 ♥

"and Gareth bowed himself With all obedience to the King, and wrought All kind of service with a noble ease That graced the lowliest act in doing it." from Gareth and Lynette · 2 ♥

"Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods." from Ulysses · 2 ♥

"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?" from Canto XLI · 2 ♥

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