Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Trending quotes (page 8)

“I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally,
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"The Brook", st. 1 (1855)

“That jewelled mass of millinery,
That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tears, Idle Tears

St. 1
Tears, Idle Tears (1850)

Autumn , Thinking , Tear , Heart

“Insipid as the queen upon a card.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Aylmer's Field (1864); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“His deeds yet live, the worst is yet to come.
Yet let your sleep for this one night be sound:
I do forgive him!”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

" Sea Dreams http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Alfred_Lord_Tennyson/14402" (1864) l. 301-303

Forgiveness , Sleep , Night

“Authority forgets a dying king,
Laid widow’d of the power in his eye
That bow’d the will.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Morte D'Arthur (1842), Lines 121-123

Forgetting

“You that woo the Voices—tell them "Old Experience is a fool";
Teach your flattered kings that only those who can not read can rule.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 131

Fools , Reading

“"He does not love me for my birth
Nor for my lands so broad and fair;
He loves me for my own true worth,
And that is well," said Lady Clare.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clare

Lady Clare (1842)

Love , Birth

“Follow you the star that lights a desert pathway, yours or mine.
Forward, till you see the Highest Human Nature is divine.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 275

Star , Nature , Light

“Then some one spake: "Behold! it was a crime
Of sense avenged by sense that wore with time."
Another said: "The crime of sense became
The crime of malice, and is equal blame."
And one: "He had not wholly quench'd his power;
A little grain of conscience made him sour."
At last I heard a voice upon the slope
Cry to the summit, "Is there any hope?"
To which an answer peal'd from that high land,
But in a tongue no man could understand;
And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn
God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"The Vision of Sin", sec. 5 (1842)

God , Hope , Understanding , Sense

“For nothing worthy proving can be proven,
Nor yet disproven: wherefore thou be wise,
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt,
And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith!”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

From The Ancient Sage (1885), lines 66-69

Faith

“First pledge our Queen this solemn night,
Then drink to England, every guest;
That man's the best Cosmopolite
Who loves his native country best.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

" Hands All Round http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/T/TennysonAlfred/verse/tiresias/handsallround.html", l. 1-4 (1885)

Love , Drink , Night , Country

“Fires that shook me once, but now to silent ashes fall'n away.
Cold upon the dead volcano sleeps the gleam of dying day.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Stanza 21
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)

Sleep , Dead

“My God, I would not live
Save that I think this gross hard-seeming world
Is our misshaping vision of the Powers
Behind the world, that make our griefs our gains.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Sisters

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

God , World , Thinking

“The golden guess
Is morning-star to the full round of truth.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Truth , Star

“This laurel greener from the brows
Of him that utter'd nothing base.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To the Queen, st. 3 (1851)

“All night have the roses heard
The flute, violin, bassoon;
All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
To the dancers dancing in tune;
Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
And a hush with the setting moon.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Part I, section xxii, stanza 3
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

Bird , Silence , Dance , Night

“You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;
Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year;
Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day,
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

" The May Queen http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tmq.htm", st. 1 (1832)

Time

“Who can fancy warless men?
Warless? War will die out late then. Will it ever? late or soon?
Can it, till this outworn earth be dead as yon dead world the moon?”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 172

Men , War , World , Dead

“Death's truer name
Is "Onward," no discordance in the roll
And march of that Eternal Harmony
Whereto the world beats time.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale

Death , World , Time