Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Trending quotes (page 7)

“Once at the croak of a Raven who crost it,
A barbarous people,
Blind to the magic,
And deaf to the melody,
Snarl’d at and cursed me.
A demon vext me,
The light retreated,
The landskip darken’d,
The melody deaden’d,
The Master whisper’d
‘Follow The Gleam.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Merlin and the Gleam", st. 3 (1889)

People , Light

“Out upon the wharfs they came,
Knight and Burgher, Lord and Dame,
And around the prow they read her name,
The Lady of Shalott.Who is this? And what is here?
And in the lighted palace near
Died the sound of royal cheer;
And they crossed themselves for fear,
All the Knights at Camelot;
But Lancelot mused a little space
He said, "She has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott."”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott

Pt. IV, st. 6
The Lady of Shalott (1832)

Love , God , Fear , Light

“A good woman is a wondrous creature, cleaving to the right and to the good under all change: lovely in youthful comeliness, lovely all her life long in comeliness of heart.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Letter to Emily Sellwood, quoted in Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, by Hallam T. Tennyson (1897)

Love , Life , Youth , Change

“Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Stanza 124
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)

Fools

“Remember that sore saying spoken once
By Him that was the Truth, 'How hard it is
For the rich man to enter into heaven!'
Let all rich men remember that hard word.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Act iv, scene 3
Queen Mary: A Drama (published 1876)

Men , Truth

“Be patient. Our Playwright may show
In some fifth act what this wild Drama means.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

“"I'll never love any but you," the morning song of the lark;
"I'll never love any but you," the nightingale's hymn in the dark.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The First Quarrel, stanza VI., lines 3-4; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Love

“Come into the garden, Maud,
For the black bat, night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the gate alone;
And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad,
And the musk of the rose is blown.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Part I, section xxii, stanza 1
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

Night

“If you are not the heiress born,
And I," said he, "the lawful heir,
We two will wed to-morrow morn,
And you shall still be Lady Clare.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clare

Lady Clare (1842)

Law , Wedding

“Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade

St. 5
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)

Death , Hell , Horse

“Her manners had not that repose
Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere

Stanza 5
Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)

“In statesmanship
To strike too soon is oft to miss the blow.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Act iii, scene 6
Queen Mary: A Drama (published 1876)

“The shell must break before the bird can fly.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

From The Ancient Sage (1885), line 154

Bird , Flying

“The night with sudden odour reeled;
The southern stars a music pealed.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Music , Star , Night

“…none can truly write his single day,
And none can write it for him upon earth.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Unpublished Sonnet (originally written as a preface to Becket), in Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, by Hallam T. Tennyson (1897)

“Love will conquer at the last.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 280

Love

“And ah for a man to arise in me,
That the man I am may cease to be!”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Part I, section x, stanza 6
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

“Forget thee…
Never—
Till Nature, high and low, and great and small
Forgets herself, and all her loves and hates
Sink again into Chaos.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Foresters

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

Love , Hate , Nature , Forgetting

“The song that nerves a nation's heart
Is in itself a deed.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Epilogue to The Charge of the Heavy Brigade, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Heart

“And the parson made it his text that week, and he said likewise,
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.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

" The Grandmother http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Alfred_Lord_Tennyson/14415", st. 8 (1864)

Truth , Lie , Fight , Parting