Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Trending quotes (page 6)

“For a breeze of morning moves,
And the planet of Love is on high,
Beginning to faint in the light that she loves
On a bed of daffodil sky,
To faint in the light of the sun she loves,
To faint in his light, and to die.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Part I, section xxii, stanza 2
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

Love , Light , Sun

“She with all the charm of woman,
She with all the breadth of man.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 48

“Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day:
Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away,
To sleep! to sleep!
Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past:
Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Foresters

Song, Act I, Scene ii
The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion (1892)

Life , Soul , Sleep , Past

“Speak no more of his renown,
Lay your earthly fancies down,
And in the vast cathedral leave him,
God accept him, Christ receive him!”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

God , Christ

“Who shall call me ungentle, unfair,
I long'd so heartily then and there
To give him the grasp of fellowship;
But while I past he was humming an air,
Stopt, and then with a riding whip,
Leisurely tapping a glossy boot,
And curving a contumelious lip,
Gorgonised me from head to foot
With a stony British stare.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Part I, section xiii, stanza 2
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

Past

“For it was in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Recollections of the Arabian Nights, stanza 1, from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830)

“All the windy ways of men
Are but dust that rises up,
And is lightly laid again.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

" The Vision of Sin http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/vs.htm", sec. 4 (1842)

Men , Way

“What use to brood? This life of mingled pains
And joys to me,
Despite of every Faith and Creed, remains
The Mystery.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To Mary Boyle, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Life , Pain , Faith , Joy

“He often lying broad awake, and yet
Remaining from the body, and apart
In intellect and power and will, hath heard
Time flowing in the middle of the night,
And all things creeping to a day of doom.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

" The Mystic http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Early-Poems-of-Alfred-Lord-Tennyson9.html" (1830)

Lying , Time , Night

“"Shall we fight or shall we fly?
Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
For to fight is but to die!
There'll be little of us left by the time this sun be set."
And Sir Richard said again: "We be all good English men.
Let us bang these dogs of Seville, the children of the devil,
For I never turn'd my back upon Don or devil yet."”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

St. 4
The Revenge (1878)

Men , Children , Dogs , Time

“For this is England's greatest son,
He that gained a hundred fights,
And never lost an English gun.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Fight

“She sees the Best that glimmers thro’ the Worst,
She feels the Sun is hid but for a night,
She spies the summer thro’ the winter bud,
She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls,
She hears the lark within the songless egg,
She finds the fountain where they wail’d ‘Mirage’!”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

From The Ancient Sage (1885), lines 72-77

Feeling , Winter , Sun , Summer

“Perfectly beautiful: let it be granted her: where is the fault?
All that I saw (for her eyes were downcast, not to be seen)
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,
Dead perfection, no more.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Part I, section ii
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

Beauty , Perfection , Dead

“We are ancients of the earth,
And in the morning of the times.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Daydream: L'Envoi, lines 231-32, from The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson (1879)

Time

“For Knowledge is the swallow on the lake
That sees and stirs the surface-shadow there
But never yet hath dipt into the abysm”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

From The Ancient Sage (1885), lines 37-39

Knowledge

“Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales.
They said that Love would die when Hope was gone.
And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope;
At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Lover's Tale (1879), line 815

Love , Hope , Soul , Kiss

“Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
Of me you shall not win renown:
You thought to break a country heart
For pastime, ere you went to town.
At me you smiled, but unbeguiled
I saw the snare, and I retired;
The daughter of a hundred earls,
You are not one to be desired.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere

Stanza 1
Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)

Smile , Heart , Daughters , Country

“To persecute
Makes a faith hated, and is furthermore
No perfect witness of a perfect faith
In him who persecutes.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Act iii, scene 4
Queen Mary: A Drama (published 1876)

Hate , Faith , Perfection

“Then spake Sir Richard Grenville: "I know you are no coward;
You fly them for a moment to fight with them again.
But I've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore.
I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard,
To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain."”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

St. 2
The Revenge (1878)

Men , Dogs , Lying , Fight

“From the bank and from the river
He flashed into the crystal mirror,
"Tirra lirra," by the river
Sang Sir Lancelot.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott

Pt. III, st. 4
The Lady of Shalott (1832)