Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Trending quotes (page 9)

“My lord, you know what Virgil sings—
Woman is various and most mutable.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Singing

“For now the poet can not die,
Nor leave his music as of old,
But round him ere he scarce be cold
Begins the scandal and the cry.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To ———, after reading a Life and Letters, stanza 4, from Poems (1850)

Music , Cry

“So many minds did gird their orbs with beams,
Tho' one did fling the fire;
Heaven flow'd upon the soul in many dreams
Of high desire.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere

The Poet (1830)

Dreams , Soul

“O Love! what hours were thine and mine,
In lands of palm and southern pine;
In lands of palm, of orange-blossom,
Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Daisy, Stanza 1; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Love

“A shadow flits before me,
Not thou, but like to thee:
Ah Christ, that it were possible
For one short hour to see
The souls we loved, that they might tell us
What and where they be.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Part II, section iv, stanza 3
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

Love , Soul , Christ

“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 know not me.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson book Ulysses

Source: Ulysses (1842), l. 1-5

Age , Law , Sleep

“It was the time when lilies blow,
And clouds are highest up in air.
Lord Ronald brought a lily-white doe
To give his cousin, Lady Clare.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clare

Lady Clare (1842)

Time

“A breath that fleets beyond this iron world
And touches him who made it.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Harold, Act iii, Scene 2

World

“Well, Gosse, would you like to know what I think of Churton Collins? I think he's a Louse on the Locks of Literature.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Evan Charteris, Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (1931), p. 197

Literature , Thinking

“On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And through the field the road runs by
To many-towered Camelot.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott

Pt. I, st. 1
The Lady of Shalott (1832)

Lie , Clothes

“For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Crossing the Bar

St. 4
Crossing the Bar (1889)

Hope , Time

“You sought to prove how I could love,
And my disdain is my reply.
The lion on your old stone gates
Is not more cold to you than I.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere

Stanza 3
Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)

Love

“Charm us, orator, till the lion look no larger than the cat.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 112

Cats

“When every morning brought a noble chance,
And every chance brought out a noble knight.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Morte D'Arthur (1842), Lines 230-231

Chance

“All in the blue unclouded weather
Thick-jewelled shone the saddle-leather,
The helmet and the helmet-feather
Burned like one burning flame together,
As he rode down to Camelot.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott

Pt. III, st. 3
The Lady of Shalott (1832)

Weather

“Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet —
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"The Higher Pantheism", st. 6 (1869)

“Authors—essayist, atheist, novelist, realist, rhymester, play your part,
Paint the mortal shame of nature with the living hues of art.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 139

Art , Nature , Parting , Painting

“Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls,
Come hither, the dances are done,
In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls,
Queen lily and rose in one;
Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls,
To the flowers, and be their sun.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Part I, section xxii, stanza 9
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

Girl , Flowers , Sun , Dance

“Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Crossing the Bar

St. 1
Crossing the Bar (1889)

Star , Sea

“Slav, Teuton, Kelt, I count them all
My friends and brother souls,
With all the peoples, great and small,
That wheel between the poles.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

People , Soul