Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Trending quotes (page 5)

Quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations, in Most Frequent Use by D.E. Macdonnel (1809) translated from French: Le bonheur de l'homme en cette vi ne consiste pas á être sans passions: il consiste à en être le maître.
Misattributed

Life , Passion , Happiness

“No sound is breathed so potent to coerce
And to conciliate, as their names who dare
For that sweet mother-land which gave them birth
Nobly to do, nobly to die.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Tiresias, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Birth

“Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere?
Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 198

Pain , People , Evil

“Willows whiten, aspens quiver,
Little breezes dusk and shiver
Through the wave that runs for ever
By the island in the river
Flowing down to Camelot.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott

Pt. I, st. 2
The Lady of Shalott (1832)

“Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 200

“One still strong man in a blatant land.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Part I, section x, stanza 5
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

Strong

“Lead out the pageant: sad and slow,
As fits an universal woe,
Let the long, long procession go,
And let the sorrowing crowd about it grow,
And let the mournful martial music blow;
The last great Englishman is low.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

St. III
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (1852)

Sadness , Music , Universe

“Break, break, break
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Break, Break, Break" (1842), st. 4

Sea , Dead

“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."”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Palace of Art

"The Palace of Art", st. 1 (1832)

Pleasure , Soul , Housing

“And statesmen at her council met
Who knew the seasons, when to take
Occasion by the hand, and make
The bounds of freedom wider yet.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To the Queen, st. 8 (1851)

Freedom , Season

“If I come dressed like a village maid,
I am but as my fortunes are:
I am a beggar born," she said,
"And not the Lady Clare.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clare

Lady Clare (1842)

“A man had given all other bliss,
And all his worldly worth for this,
To waste his whole heart in one kiss
Upon her perfect lips.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere

Kiss , Heart , Perfection